Absalom has fled.” When the servant who kept watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road beside the mountain west of him.
Then Jonadab told the king, “The king’s sons have come. It’s just as I said.”
David was sitting between the two gates while the watchman walked along the roof of the gate by the wall. As he looked, he saw a man running alone.
A person burdened with the guilt of murder will be a fugitive down to his grave. No one will help him.
It is like a person who flees from a lion only to be attacked by a bear. It is like a person who goes home and puts his hand on the wall only to be bitten by a snake.