but if you return to the city and tell Absalom, “I will be your servant, Your Majesty! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,” then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.
2 Samuel 15:27 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The king also said to the priest Zadok, ‘Look, return to the city in peace and your two sons with you: your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The king also said to Zadok the priest, Are you not a seer? [You and Abiathar] return to the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan son of Abiathar. American Standard Version (1901) The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art thou not a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. Common English Bible “Do you understand?” the king said to the priest Zadok. “Go back to the city in safety—you and Abiathar with your two sons, your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. Catholic Public Domain Version And the king said to Zadok the priest: "O seer, return into the city in peace. And let your son Ahimaaz, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the city in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you. |
but if you return to the city and tell Absalom, “I will be your servant, Your Majesty! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,” then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.
Take note: their two sons are there with them #– #Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan. Send them to tell me everything you hear.’
Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, because they dared not be seen entering the city.
Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, ‘Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the Lord has vindicated him by freeing him from his enemies.’
When David got up in the morning, the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David’s seer:
He was still speaking when Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest, suddenly arrived. Adonijah said, ‘Come in, for you are an important man, and you must be bringing good news.’
Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also had married a daughter of Solomon #– #Basemath);
All these sons of Heman, the king’s seer, were given by the promises of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
‘Look,’ the servant said, ‘there’s a man of God in this city who is highly respected; everything he says is sure to come true. Let’s go there now. Maybe he’ll tell us which way we should go.’
Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to enquire of God would say, ‘Come, let’s go to the seer,’ for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.