Go, I pray you, prepare further, and know and see his place that he inhabits, and who has seen him there: for it is told me that he deals very subtilly.
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whoever hears it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the hiding places where he hides himself, and come again to me with the report, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.