³⁴ But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘Your Majesty, I will be your servant; I was your father’s servant in the past, but now I will be your servant,’^(A) then you can help me by frustrating^(B) Ahithophel’s advice. ³⁵ Won’t the priests Zadok and Abiathar be there with you? Tell them anything you hear in the king’s palace.^{(C) 36} Their two sons, Ahimaaz^(D) son of Zadok and Jonathan^(E) son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with anything you hear.”