And all the country wept with a loud voice. And all the people passed by over the Brook of Kidron; and the king crossed the Brook Kidron. And all the people and the king passed on toward the way of the wilderness.

And the king said to Ziba, What do you mean to do with these? And Ziba said, The donkeys [are] for the household of the king to sit on, and the loaves and the dates [are] for the young men to eat, and the wine [is] for them that are faint in the wilderness to drink.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out for myself twelve thousand men, and I will arise and follow after David this night.

And now send quickly and report to David, saying, Lodge not this night in Araboth of the wilderness: but go and make haste, lest [one] swallow up the king, and all the people with him.