2 Samuel 15:23-25

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²³Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly while all the people were marching past. As the king was crossing the Kidron Valley, all the people were marching past on the road that leads to the desert.

²⁴Zadok was also there, and all the Levites with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices^[a] until the people had finished marching past.^(A) ²⁵Then the king instructed Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city.^(B) If I find favor in the Lord’s eyes, He will bring me back and allow me to see both it and its dwelling place.^(C)