Jonadab told the king, “Can you see? The king's sons are arriving! It's exactly as your servant said.”
In the meantime, Absalom had run away. When the watchman in Jerusalem looked out, he saw a large crowd coming along the road west of him, down the side of the hill.
As he finished speaking, the king's sons came in, crying and wailing. Then the king and all his officials also cried loudly.