Now Ahimaaz was confronted with the predicament which Joab foresaw, for he knew well that at that moment Absalom's still
warm body lay
beneath a great heap of
stones where the victorious troops had killed, and in this fashion entombed him; he evaded the issue: «When Joab, the king's servant, sent me, your servant, I saw a great commotion, but I do not know what it was.»