Behold, their two sons are with them there, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son, and by them you shall send to me everything you hear.”
Nothing, it seems, appeared to David more threatening in Absalom's plot than that Ahithophel was in it; for one good head, in such a design, is worth a thousand good hands. Absalom was himself no politician, but he had got one entirely in his interest that was, and would be the more dangerous because he had been all along acquainted with David's counsels and affairs...
Commenting on 2 Samuel 15:31-37
Behold, they have there with them two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son,.... As in Sa2 15:27; not that they were in the city with them, but they were near it, Sa2 17:17; with whom they had a communication: and by whom ye shall send unto me everything that ye can hear; that is, by the sons of the priests; he telling the...
2Sa 15:35-36 David then commissioned him to communicate to the priests Zadok and Abiathar all that he should hear of the king’s house, and send word to him through their sons.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 15:35-36