2 Samuel 19:8

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:24

Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate by the wall, and when he 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 he stood beside the gate, and all the army came out by hundreds and by thousands.

2 Kings 14:12

But Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled home.

1 Kings 22:36

And there went a cry throughout the army about sundown, saying, Every man to his city and his own country,

2 Samuel 19:3

The people slipped into the city stealthily that day as humiliated people steal away when they flee in battle.

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled, everyone to his own home.

2 Samuel 15:2

And [he] rose up early and stood beside the gateway; and when any man who had a controversy came to the king for judgment, Absalom called to him, Of what city are you? And he would say, Your servant is of such and such a tribe of Israel.

1 Samuel 4:10

And the Philistines fought; Israel was smitten and they fled every man to his own home. There was a very great slaughter; for 30,000 foot soldiers of Israel fell.

2 Kings 8:21

So Jehoram [of Judah] went over to Zair with all his chariots. He and his chariot commanders rose up by night and slew the Edomites who had surrounded them; and [escaping] his army fled home.