2 Samuel 19:8

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2 Samuel 19:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!

7 Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

8 So the king got up and sat in the gate, and all the people were told: “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So they all came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled, each man to his home.

9 And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.

10 But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 18:4

“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.

2 Samuel 19:3

So they returned to the city quietly that day, as people steal away in humiliation after fleeing a battle.

2 Samuel 18:6

So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 18:7

There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.

2 Samuel 18:8

The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.

1 Kings 22:36

As the sun was setting, the cry rang out in the army: “Every man to his own city, and every man to his own land!”

2 Kings 14:12

And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his home.