And David sent home to Tamar, saying, "Go to thy brother Amnon's house and dress him meat.

And the king said unto the wife, "Go home to thine house, and I will give a charge for thee."

And the woman said, "Wherefore then hast thou determined on this same manner against the people of God? - That the king should speak this thing and be faulty therein, so that the king should not fetch home again his banished.

Then said the king to Joab, "Behold, I am content to do this thing. Go therefore fetch home the lad Absalom."

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Ye are my brethren, my bones and my flesh: wherefore then should ye be the last that should come to bring the king home again?'