20. The servants of Absalom came to the woman at the house and said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?”She said, “They crossed over the brook of water.” When they searched, they could not find them. So they returned to Jerusalem.
21. After they left, they came up from the well, went, and reported to King David. They said to David, “Arise and quickly cross over the water because thus has Ahithophel advised against you.”
22. So David and all of the people who were with him arose and crossed over the Jordan. By daybreak, there was not one left who had not crossed over the Jordan.
23. When Ahithophel realized that his advice was not followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his own city. He gave instruction to his household, then he hanged himself and died; he was interred in the tomb of his father.
24. David came to Mahanaim as Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and every Israelite with him.
25. Now Absalom had placed Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Jether the Ishmaelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.