2 Samuel 19:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ Then the king arose, and took his seat in the gate. And the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate”; and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his own home.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And all [his followers] were told, The king is sitting in the gate, and they all came before the king. Now Israel [Absalom's troops] had fled, every man to his home.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

⁸ So the king went and sat down in the city gate. All the troops were told that the king was sitting in the gate, so they came before the king. Meanwhile, the Israelites had fled to their homes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Therefore, the king rose up, and he sat at the gate. And it was announced to all the people that the king was sitting at the gate. And the entire multitude went before the king. But Israel fled to their own tents.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate. And all the people came before the king but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Samuel 19:8 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate; and when any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him, and say, “From what city are you?” And when he said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”

2 Samuel 18:17

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

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:4

The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Samuel 19:3

And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

1 Kings 22:36

And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

2 Kings 14:12

And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his home.

2 Kings 8:21

Then Joram passed over to Zair with all his chariots, and rose by night, and he and his chariot commanders smote the Edomites who had surrounded him; but his army fled home.

1 Samuel 4:10

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home; and there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.