2Sa 17:16 | ESV | STEP | Now therefore send quickly and tell David , Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness , but by all means pass over , lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up .

2 Samuel 17:16

16 Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at ^athe fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be ^bswallowed up.’”