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20 Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahima’az and Jonathan?”

The woman said to them, “They have passed by toward the river.”[a] Absalom’s servants pursued them but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

21 When they left, Ahima’az and Jonathan climbed out of the well. They went and reported to King David, and they said to him, “Get up and cross over the river quickly because this is what Ahithophel advised against you.” 22 So David and all the people who were with him set out and crossed the Jordan, beginning at the first light of day and continuing until everyone had crossed over the Jordan.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:20 Literally they have crossed the mical of the water. The meaning of mical is unknown, but the following verses suggest that flight toward the Jordan is what is being described.