2 Samuel 19:8

David Returns To Jerusalem

⁷ Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now. ⁸ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent. ⁹ And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is 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 unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:4

And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

2 Samuel 18:6-8

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:17

And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

2 Samuel 19:3

And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

1 Kings 22:36

And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.

2 Kings 14:12

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.