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## 2 Samuel 15:30-31 in Context (Verses 27–34 KJV)
 
 [27 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/27) The king said also unto Zadok the priest, *Art not* thou a seer? return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/28) See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness, until there come word from you to certify me.
 
 [29 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/29) Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.
 
 [30 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/30) ¶ And David went up by the ascent of *mount* Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that *was* with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.*
 
 [31 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/31) ¶ And *one* told David, saying, Ahithophel *is* among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
 
 [32 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/32) ¶ And it came to pass, that *when* David was come to the top *of the mount*, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
 
 [33 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/33) Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:
 
 [34 ](/kjv/2-samuel/15/34) But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; *as* I *have been* thy father’s servant hitherto, so *will* I now also *be* thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
 
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