2 Samuel 15:14
15:14 So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, 1 “Come on! 2 Let’s escape! 3 Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring 4 disaster on us and kill the city’s residents with the sword.” 5
2 Samuel 17:16
17:16 Now send word quickly to David and warn him, 6 “Don’t spend the night at the fords of the desert 7 tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over, 8 or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.” 9
2 Samuel 17:18
17:18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.
1 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
2 tn Heb “Arise!”
3 tn Heb “let’s flee.”
4 tn Heb “thrust.”
5 tn Heb “and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”
6 tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”
7 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV, TEV).
8 tn That is, “cross over the Jordan River.”
9 tn Heb “swallowed up.”