Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that [are] with him.
Ver. 16. Lest the king be swallowed up.] For Hushai observing Absalom's and his followers fickleness, knew not but that they might yet follow Ahithophel's counsel, when seconded and set on by him with new and better arguments. He would have David therefore get speedily out of their reach over Jordan.