24. Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God's ark; and ABIATHAR went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.

25. The king said to Zadok, "Carry God's ark back into the city. If I find favor in The LORD's eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;

26. but if he says, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

27. The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of ABIATHAR.

28. Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

29. Zadok therefore and ABIATHAR carried God's ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there.