2 Samuel 18:24

DAVID RECEIVED THE NEWS OF THE VICTORY AND OF ABSALOM'S DEATH

"Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone. And the watchman called out and told the king. And the king said, `If he is alone, there are tidings in his mouth.' And he came again and drew near. And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gate and said, `See, another man running alone!' The king said, `He also brings tidings.' And the watchman said, `I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.' And the king said, `He is a good man, and comes with good tidings.'"

"This passage is superb literature, intensely dramatic, and so unmistakably the account of an eye-witness that some have concluded from this that Ahimaaz himself might have been the author of this account as well as the author of 2 Samuel 9-20 also."[26]