²⁷ The king also said to the priest Zadok, “Look,^[a] go back to the city in peace, you and Abiathar,^[b] with your two sons, Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan son of Abiathar.^(A)

¹⁷ Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En-rogel; a female slave used to go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not risk being seen entering the city.^(A)

⁹ (Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)^(A)

⁵ All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

¹¹ When David rose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,^(A)

³⁶ Their two sons are with them there, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan, and by them you shall report to me everything you hear.”^(A)

³⁴ But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.^(A)