2 Samuel 19:8

David Returns To Jerusalem

⁷ Now therefore arise, go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, surely not a man will pass the night with you, and this will be worse for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.” ⁸ So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate,” then all the people came before the king.Now Israel had fled, each to his tent. ⁹ All the people were quarreling throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

City Gate

In His Presence

Men of Israel

Absalom

Israel

Mahanaim

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.

2 Samuel 18:4

Then the king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and thousands.

2 Samuel 15:2

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

2 Samuel 18:6-8

Then the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom and cast him into a deep pit in the forest and erected over him a very great heap of stones. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

2 Samuel 19:3

So the people went by stealth into the city that day, as people who are humiliated steal away when they flee in battle.

1 Kings 22:36

Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city and every man to his country.”

2 Kings 14:12

Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent.