22 They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.

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Therefore let everyone who is (A)godly
    offer prayer to you at a time when you (B)may be found;
surely in the rush of (C)great waters,
    they shall not reach him.
You are a (D)hiding place for me;
    you preserve me from (E)trouble;
    you surround me with (F)shouts of deliverance. Selah

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20 When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook[a] of water.” And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:20 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

10 (A)And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

11 (B)Saul sent messengers to David's house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David's wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 (C)So Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped.

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