2 Samuel 19:8

David Returns To Jerusalem

⁷ So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years. ⁸ Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents. ⁹ And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.

City Gate

In His Presence

Men of Israel

Absalom

Israel

Mahanaim

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.

2 Samuel 18:4

And the king said to them, I will do whatever seems best to you. So the king took his place by the door of the town, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your 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 fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:17

And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

2 Samuel 19:3

And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.

1 Kings 22:36

And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.

2 Kings 14:12

And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.