And [hast thou] not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the
 priests?
 &c.] To assist in forming schemes directly opposite to Ahithophel's, or to whom he could communicate the secrets of Absalom's court: 
 therefore it shall be [that] what thing soever thou shalt hear out of
 the king's house;
 Absalom's, who had now, at possession of the house and palace of David: 
 thou shalt tell [it] to Zadok and Abiathar the priests;
 to whom he might have recourse without suspicion, pretending he had business with them as priests, on religious accounts, to offer sacrifices for him, &c.