²⁵ Surely you realize that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you, to know ^(A)your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”

³ And the princes of the people of Ammon said to Hanun, ^[a]“Do you think that David really honors your father because he has sent comforters to you? Did his servants not come to you to search and to overthrow and to spy out the land?”