They be gone

2 Samuel 15:34
but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I will be your servant, my king! In the past I was your father's servant, but now I will be your servant, ' then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

Exodus 1:19
The midwives answered Pharaoh, "The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives."

Joshua 2:4, 5
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, "Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from. . . .

1 Samuel 19:14-17
When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, "He is ill." . . .

1 Samuel 21:2
"The king has ordered me on some business, " David replied. "He told me no one is to know about the mission or instructions. And I have directed my young men to meet me at a certain place.

1 Samuel 27:11, 12
David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, "Otherwise they will report us, saying, 'This is what David did.'" And this was David's custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory. . . .

when they had sought

Joshua 2:22, 23
So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road. . . .