Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New 
York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

                                  AHIMAAZ

2SA 15:36  Their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of 
Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear."

2SA 17:17  Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel. A servant girl 
was to go and inform them, and they were to go and tell King David, for 
they could not risk being seen entering the city.

2SA 17:18  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them 
left quickly and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in 
his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

2SA 17:19  His wife took a covering and spread it out over the opening of 
the well and scattered grain over it. No one knew anything about it.

2SA 17:20  When Absalom's men came to the woman at the house, they asked, 
"Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman answered them, "They crossed 
over the brook." The men searched but found no one, so they returned to 
Jerusalem.

2SA 18:19  Now Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, "Let me run and take the news to 
the king that the LORD has delivered him from the hand of his enemies."

2SA 18:20  "You are not the one to take the news today," Joab told him. 
"You may take the news another time, but you must not do so today, because 
the king's son is dead."

2SA 18:21  Then Joab said to a Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have 
seen." The Cushite bowed down before Joab and ran off.

2SA 18:22  Ahimaaz son of Zadok again said to Joab, "Come what may, please 
let me run behind the Cushite." But Joab replied, "My son, why do you want 
to go? You don't have any news that will bring you a reward."

2SA 18:23  He said, "Come what may, I want to run." So Joab said, "Run!" 
Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.

2SA 18:24  While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the 
watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, 
he saw a man running alone.

2SA 18:25  The watchman called out to the king and reported it. The king 
said, "If he is alone, he must have good news." And the man came closer and 
closer.

2SA 18:26  Then the watchman saw another man running, and he called down to 
the gatekeeper, "Look, another man running alone!" The king said, "He must 
be bringing good news, too."

2SA 18:27  The watchman said, "It seems to me that the first one runs like 
Ahimaaz son of Zadok." "He's a good man," the king said. "He comes with 
good news."

2SA 18:28  Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, "All is well!" He bowed 
down before the king with his face to the ground and said, "Praise be to 
the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who lifted their hands 
against my lord the king."

2SA 18:29  The king asked, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" Ahimaaz 
answered, "I saw great confusion just as Joab was about to send the king's 
servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was."

2SA 18:30  The king said, "Stand aside and wait here." So he stepped aside 
and stood there.

2SA 18:31  Then the Cushite arrived and said, "My lord the king, hear the 
good news! The LORD has delivered you today from all who rose up against 
you."

2SA 18:32  The king asked the Cushite, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" The 
Cushite replied, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up 
to harm you be like that young man."

2SA 18:33  The king was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and 
wept. As he went, he said: "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If 
only I had died instead of you--O Absalom, my son, my son!"

1CH 6:8  Ahitub the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Ahimaaz,

1CH 6:9  Ahimaaz the father of Azariah, Azariah the father of Johanan,

1CH 6:53  Zadok his son and Ahimaaz his son.

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