²² Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they crossed the Jordan. By daybreak not one was left who had not crossed the Jordan.

^9 (A)This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken: “Of those whom you gave me I have lost not one.”

Persecution Will Come

^16 (A)“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be ^(B)wise as serpents and ^(C)innocent as doves.

²⁴ Then David came to ^(A)Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

⁴⁹ and said to Moses, “Your servants have counted the men of war who are under our command, and there is not a man missing from us.