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15Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “This and that is what Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this and that is what I have advised.”

16Now send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but be sure to cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’

17Jonathan and Ahimaaz were standing at En-rogel, and a female servant would go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

18But a young man saw them and told Absalom, so the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down there.

19Then the woman took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered crushed grain on it, and the matter was not known.

20Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They crossed over the brook of water.” They searched, but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

21After they had gone, they came up out of the well and went and told King David. They said to David, “Get up and cross over the water quickly, for this is what Ahithophel has advised against you.”

22Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By morning light, not one was missing who had not crossed the Jordan.