15Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, “Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled. 16Now, therefore, send quickly, and tell David, “Do not lodge this night in the plains of the wilderness, but quickly cross over, lest king David be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him”. 17Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En-rogel; that they might not be seen coming into the city. And a maidservant took the message to them; and they went and told King David. 18But a lad saw them, and told Absalom; so the two of them went away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down into the well. 19And the woman spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground grain on it; and the well was not evident. 20And when Absalom's servants came to the woman of the house, they said, “Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” And the woman said, “They have gone over the brook of water”. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem. 21And after Absalom’s men had left, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, “Arise, and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you”. 22Then David, and all those with him, arose and crossed over the Jordan; by the morning light there was not one of them left who had not crossed the Jordan.

23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and went to his house, in his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.

24Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, and all the men of Israel with him, crossed over the Jordan. 25And Absalom made Amasa commander of the army instead of Joab; this Amasa was a son of a man named Ithra, an Israelite, who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash, the half-sister of David and sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother. 26So Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. 27And when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, son of Nahash, of Rabbah, of the Ammonites, and Machir, son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai, the Gileadite of Rogelim, 28Brought beds, basins, clay pots, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched pulse, 29And honey, butter, sheep, and cheese of cows, for David, and the people with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.