saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
and it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went, I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
And the Gil´e-adites took the passages of Jordan before the E´phra-imites: and it was so, that when those E´phra-imites which were escaped said, Let me go over, that the men of Gil´e-ad said unto him, Art thou an E´phra-imite? If he said, Nay;
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.