2 Samuel 19:8

Good News Translation

Then the king got up, and went and sat near the city gate. His men heard that he was there, and they all gathered around him. Meanwhile all the Israelites had fled to their own hometowns.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:2

He would get up early and go and stand by the road at the city gate. Whenever someone came there with a dispute that he wanted the king to settle, Absalom would call him over and ask him where he was from. And after the man had told him what tribe he was from,

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom's body, threw it into a deep pit in the forest, and covered it with a huge pile of stones. All the Israelites fled to their own hometowns.

2 Samuel 18:24

David was sitting in the space between the inner and outer gates of the city. The lookout went up to the top of the wall and stood on the roof of the gateway; he looked out and saw a man running alone.

2 Samuel 18:4

“I will do whatever you think best,” the king answered. Then he stood by the side of the gate as his men marched out in units of a thousand and of a hundred.

2 Samuel 19:3

They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle.

1 Kings 22:36

Near sunset the order went out through the Israelite ranks: “Each of you go back to your own country and city!”

2 Kings 14:12

Amaziah's army was defeated, and all his soldiers fled to their homes.

2 Kings 8:21

So Jehoram set out with all his chariots to Zair, where the Edomite army surrounded them. During the night he and his chariot commanders managed to break out and escape, and his soldiers scattered to their homes.

1 Samuel 4:10

The Philistines fought hard and defeated the Israelites, who went running to their homes. There was a great slaughter: thirty thousand Israelite soldiers were killed.