¹² that Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin to claim his property there among the people.

²¹ Now it came to pass, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well and went and told King David, and said to David, ^(A)“Arise and cross over the water quickly. For thus has Ahithophel advised against you.” ²² So David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. By morning light not one of them was left who had not gone over the Jordan.

¹⁴ So David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise, and let us ^(A)flee, or we shall not escape from Absalom. Make haste to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly and bring disaster upon us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.”

David Allied with the Philistines

27 And David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will ^[a]despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.”