¹⁶ Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at ^(A)the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be ^(B)swallowed up.’”

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.

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