18:28 Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, “Greetings!” 2 He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, “May the Lord your God be praised because he has defeated 3 the men who opposed 4 my lord the king!”
18:29 The king replied, “How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied, “I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”
1 tn Heb “I am seeing the running of the first one like the running of Ahimaaz.”
2 tn Heb “Peace.”
3 tn Heb “delivered over.”
4 tn Heb “lifted their hand against.”