The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Asahel was a fast runner, like one of the wild gazelles.

He called out and told the king.

The king said, “If he’s alone, he bears good news.”

As the first runner came closer,

Then the watchman observed, "It looks to me that the runner out in front is running like Zadok's son Ahimaaz!" The king replied, "This is a good man bearing good news!"

And it will be whenever the king went to the house of Jehovah, the runners will lift them up and they turned them back to the runner's chamber.

He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate [to] the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings.

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Who hath sent forth the Wild Ass free? And, the bands of the swift-runner, who hath loosed?

Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

He takes no delight in the strength of a horse, and gains no pleasure in the runner's swiftness.

Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city -- at the extremity.

So the swift runner will not escape, the valiant will not fortify his strength, and the mighty warrior will not save his life.

The skilled archer will not be able to stand, the swift runner will not survive, and the mounted rider will not preserve his own life.

Whither Jesus our fore-runner is entered for us, made an high-priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.