2 Samuel 18:23

But howsoever ( said he ) let me run ,.... Be it as it may, I beg I may have leave; and being so very importunate, it was granted:

and he said unto him, run ; since he would take no denial:

then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi ; who ran by the way of the mountains; which though the shorter way, that through the plain was easiest, and soonest run, though the longest.