Please go, please make yet more sure, and know, and see his place where his foot is; who has seen him there, for one has said to me, He is being very crafty.
Behold, now he is hidden in one of the pits, or in one of the places. And it shall be, at the falling among them at the beginning, that whoever hears even shall say, There has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom.
And see and know of all the hiding places there where he hides himself. And you shall return to me ready, and I shall go with you, and it shall be, if he is in the land, that I shall search him out through all the thousands of Judah.