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2 Samuel 17:16-18
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16 Now send word quickly to David and warn him,[a] “Don’t spend the night at the fords[b] of the wilderness tonight. Instead, be sure you cross over,[c] or else the king and everyone who is with him may be overwhelmed.”[d]

17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying in En Rogel. A female servant would go and inform them, and they would then go and inform King David. It was not advisable for them to be seen going into the city. 18 But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:16 tn Heb “send quickly and tell David saying.”
  2. 2 Samuel 17:16 tc The MT reads “the rift valleys (עֲרָבוֹת, ʿaravot) of the wilderness.” The plural form typically refers to the gently sloping plains at the basin of the rift valley just north of the Dead Sea (while the larger rift valley extends from Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba). Many translations render as the “fords” (NASB, ESV, NIV, NRSV) assuming the reversal of two letters as עֲבָרוֹת (ʿavarot, “fords, crossing”).
  3. 2 Samuel 17:16 tn That is, “cross over the Jordan River.”
  4. 2 Samuel 17:16 tn Heb “swallowed up.”
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