2 Samuel 17:20

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Summary

And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

They be gone

When they had sought

Joshua 2:22

General references

Exodus 1:19

Joshua 2:4

Bible References

They be gone

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,' then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

And David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, 'Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.' I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.

And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, "lest they should tell about us and say, 'So David has done.'" Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.

When they had sought

They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.

General references

The midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them."

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.