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2 Samuel 19:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

So the king got up and sat in the city gate,  and all the people were told, ‘Look, the king is sitting in the city gate.’ Then they all came into the king’s presence. Meanwhile, each Israelite had fled to his tent.

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David was sitting between the city gates  when the watchman went up to the roof of the city gate and over to the wall.  The watchman looked out and saw a man running alone.


‘I will do whatever you think is best,’ the king replied to them. So he stood beside the city gate while all the troops marched out by hundreds and thousands.


Judah was routed before Israel, and each man fled to his own tent.


Then the cry rang out in the army as the sun set, declaring: Each man to his own city, and each man to his own land!


So they returned to the city quietly that day like troops come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.


They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and raised up a huge mound of stones over him.  And all Israel fled, each to his tent.


He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate.  Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, ‘What city are you from? ’ If he replied, ‘Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,’


So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated,  and each man fled to his tent.  The slaughter was severe #– #thirty thousand of the Israelite foot soldiers fell.


So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.





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