24. Now Zadok the priest also went, and all the Levites went with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God. And Abiathar went up, until all the people who had departed from the city had gone by.
25. And the king said to Zadok: "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will lead me back. And he will show it to me in his tabernacle.
26. But if he will say to me, 'You are not pleasing,' I am ready. Let him do whatever is good in his own sight."
27. And the king said to Zadok the priest: "O seer, return into the city in peace. And let your son Ahimaaz, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar, your two sons, be with you.
28. Behold, I will hide in the plains of the desert, until word from you may arrive to inform me."
29. Therefore, Zadok and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem, and they remained there.