⁴ And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;

¹⁹ And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

²⁰ And 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 gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.

¹⁹ And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.

¹⁸ And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.

¹⁹ And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.

¹⁹ And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria.