34 Meantime, Abʹsa·lom went running away.+ Later the young man, the watchman,+ raised his eyes and saw, and, look! there were many people coming from the road behind him by the mountainside.*

17 And the watchman+ was standing upon the tower+ in Jezʹre·el,+ and he got to see the heaving mass of Jeʹhu’s [men] as he was coming, and he at once said: “There is a heaving mass [of men] that I am seeing.” At that Je·hoʹram said: “Take a cavalryman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘Is there peace?’”+

6 For this is what Jehovah* has said to me:

“Go, post a lookout that he may tell just what he sees.”+