²⁷ The king also said to the priest Zadok,^(A) “Look,^[a] return to the city in peace and your two sons with you: your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan.

³⁶ Take note: their two sons are there with them—Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. Send them to tell me everything you hear.”

¹⁷ Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, because they dared not be seen entering the city.

²⁰ Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”

“They passed by toward the water,”^[a] the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.