And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,