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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.
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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.
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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.
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Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
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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.
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So Israel pitched camp with Absalom in the land of Gilead.
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And it came to pass, when David arrived at Mahanaim, that Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lodebar; and Barzillai, the Gileadite of Rogelim,
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brought beds and basins and earthen vessels and wheat and barley and flour and parched
wheat and beans and lentils and parched
grain
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and honey and butter and sheep and cheese of cows for David and for the people that
were with him, to eat, for they said, These people
are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.