19. The man’s wife took a cover, spread it over the top of the cistern, and scattered some grain over it so that no one could tell it was there.
20. Absalom’s servants came to the woman at her home. “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” they asked.The woman said, “They’ve crossed the stream.”The servants looked for them but did not find them. So Absalom’s servants returned to Jerusalem.
21. After Absalom’s servants left, both men came out of the cistern and went and told King David. “Leave right away,” they told David. “Cross the river quickly because this is what Ahithophel has advised against you. . . .”