25 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favour in the Lord’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
26 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you;’ behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him.”
27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”
29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.
30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
31 Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is amongst the conspirators with Absalom.”David said, “Lord, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”