2 Samuel 18:20 Cross References - ECB

²⁰ And Yah Ab says to him, You are not a man to evangelize this day; but to evangelize another day: but this day you evangelize not because the son of the sovereign died.

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.

⁵ And the sovereign misvahs Yah Ab and Abi Shai and Ittay, saying, For my sake, be gentle to the lad Abi Shalom. And all the people hear the sovereign misvah the word to all the governors concerning Abi Shalom:

²⁷ And the watcher says, I see the racing of the first as the racing of Achiy Maas the son of Sadoq. And the sovereign says, He is a good man and comes with good evangelism.

²⁹ And the sovereign says, Is the lad Abi Shalom at shalom? And Achiy Maas says, When Yah Ab sent the servant of the sovereign and your servant, I saw a great multitude, but I knew not what it is.

³³ And the sovereign quivers and ascends to the upper room over the portal and weeps: and as he goes, he says thus, O my son Abi Shalom! My son - my son Abi Shalom! O that I had died in your stead! O Abi Shalom! My son - my son!