ECB(i)
16 and now send quickly and tell David, saying, Stay not overnight this night in the plains of the wilderness, but in passing, pass over; lest the sovereign and all the people with him be swallowed.
17 And Yah Nathan and Achiy Maas stay by En Rogel; for they cannot be seen to come into the city: and a maid goes and tells them; and they go and tell sovereign David:
18 and a lad sees them and tells Abi Shalom: and both of them go away quickly and come to a house of the man in Bachurim which has a well in his court - wherein they descend:
19 and the woman takes a covering and spreads it over the face of the well; and spreads grits thereon; and the word is not known.
20 And when the servants of Abi Shalom come to the house of the woman, they say, Where are Achiy Maas and Yah Nathan? And the woman says to them, They pass over the streamlet of water. - and they seek and cannot find them and they return to Yeru Shalem.
21 And so be it, after they go, they ascend from the well and go and tell sovereign David, and say to David, Rise and pass quickly over the water: for Achiy Thophel counsels against you thus.