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 favour 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.
30. David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.