2 Samuel 17:20 TSK: When Absalom's servants approached the woman of the house, they asked her, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They've already crossed the brook," the woman answered. So Absalom's servants went away in search of Jonathan and Ahimaaz, but they couldn't find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

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When Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They have crossed over the brook," she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

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They be gone

2 Samuel 15:34
but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, my king! In the past I was your father's servant, but now I will be your servant, ' then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

Exodus 1:19
The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives."

Joshua 2:4, 5
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, "Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from. . . .

1 Samuel 19:14-17
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, "He is ill." . . .

1 Samuel 21:2
"The king has ordered me on some business, " David replied. "He told me no one is to know about the mission or instructions. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

1 Samuel 27:11, 12
David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, "Otherwise they will report us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" And this was David's custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory. . . .

when they had sought

Joshua 2:22, 23
So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road. . . .

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New American Standard Bible
Then Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And the woman said to them, "They have crossed the brook of water." And when they searched and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

King James Bible
And when Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?"" They passed by toward the water," the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

International Standard Version
When Absalom's servants approached the woman of the house, they asked her, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They've already crossed the brook," the woman answered. So Absalom's servants went away in search of Jonathan and Ahimaaz, but they couldn't find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

NET Bible
When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman replied to them, "They crossed over the stream." Absalom's men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

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