When a person approached to bow down to him, Absalom reached out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him.

When they came to Nacon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it because the oxen had stumbled.

He reached down from heaven
and took hold of me;
He pulled me out of deep waters.

Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father’s tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.

While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom struck down all the king’s sons; not even one of them survived!”

King David sent word to the priests, Zadok and Abiathar: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace? The talk of all Israel has reached the king at his house.

I called to the Lord in my distress;
I called to my God.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry for help reached His ears.