15
Then Hushai said unto Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counselled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and thus and thus have I counselled.
16
Now, therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, Do not lodge this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass
the Jordan; lest the king be swallowed up and all the people that
are with him.
17
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by Enrogel, for they could not be seen coming into the city; and a maidservant went and told them, and they went and told King David.
18
Nevertheless, a young man saw them and told Absalom, but both of them went away quickly and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court, and they went down into it.
19
And the woman
of the house took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth and spread ground wheat upon it, and the thing was not known.
20
And when Absalom’s slaves came to the woman to the house, they said, Where
is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They have gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find
them, they returned to Jerusalem.
21
And it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well and went and told King David and said unto David, Arise and pass quickly over the water, for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.
22
Then David arose and all the people that
were with him, and they passed over the Jordan before the morning light; there lacked not one of them that was not gone over the Jordan.
23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled
his ass and arose, and went home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
24
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
25
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab; this Amasa was the son of a man of Israel named Ithra, who had gone in to Abigail, the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.