2 Samuel 18:22-24

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²² But Ahimaaz pleaded with Joab, “Please let me go too.”

“No, we don’t need you now, my boy,” Joab replied. “There is no further news to send.”

²³ “Yes, but let me go anyway,” he begged.

And Joab finally said, “All right, go ahead.” Then Ahimaaz took a shortcut across the plain and got there ahead of the man from Cush. ²⁴ David was sitting at the gate of the city. When the watchman climbed the stairs to his post at the top of the wall, he saw a lone man running toward them.