During the battle, Judah's army was crushed. Every soldier from Judah ran back home,
They threw Absalom's body into a deep pit in the forest and put a big pile of rocks over it. Meanwhile, the people of Israel had all run back to their own homes.
The Philistines did fight. They killed 30,000 Israelite soldiers, and all the rest ran off to their homes.
As the sun was going down, someone in Israel's army shouted to the others, “Retreat! Go back home!”