2 Samuel 17:16-18

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶ Now then, send a messenger quickly and tell David, saying, ‘^(A)Do not spend the night at the river crossing places of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, or else the king and all the people who are with him will be ^[a]destroyed.’” ^17 (B)Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at ^(C)En-rogel, and a female servant would go and inform them, and they would go and inform King David, for they could not allow themselves to be seen entering the city. ¹⁸ But a boy did see them, and he told Absalom; so the two of them left quickly and came to the house of a man ^(D)in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down ^[b]into it.