²⁷ The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Are you not a ^(A)seer? Go back^[a] to the city in peace, with ^(B)your two sons, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

¹⁷ Now ^(A)Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at ^(B)En-rogel. A female servant was to go and tell them, and they were to go and tell King David, for they were not to be seen entering the city.

⁹ (Formerly in Israel, when a man ^(A)went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today's “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)

⁵ All these were the sons of Heman ^(A)the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

¹¹ And when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to ^(A)the prophet Gad, David's ^(B)seer, saying,

³⁶ Behold, ^(A)their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son, ^(B)and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”

³⁴ But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ^(A)‘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.