And David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, Rise up, and we will flee; for there is no escape from the face of Absalom. Hurry to leave, lest he overtake us and bring evil down on us, and strike the city with the mouth of the sword.
Oh, that I had a lodging place for my journeying in the wilderness, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they all are committing adultery, an assembly of ones acting deceitfully.
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that slipping away I should slip away to the land of the Philistines. And Saul will despair of me, to still seek me in all the border of Israel, and I shall slip away out of his hand.