In Context

21 It happened, after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, |Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.|

22 Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

23 When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

24 Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

2 Samuel 17:24 in Other Translations