Ahimaaz
Americannoun
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And when Ahimaaz reached King David, who yearned to know the fate of his headlong son, Absalom, he could only say: “I saw a great tumult but I knew not what it was.”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
He took his text from the eighteenth chapter of the second book of Samuel, the story of the young Ahimaaz who ran too soon to bring the tidings of battle to King David.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
And the watchman said, "I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok."
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, "Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies."
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
So Martin could answer glibly that Ahimaaz was the son of Zadok and that Joab plunged three darts into Absalom’s heart while the scapegrace dangled from the oak.
From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis
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