But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came many people by the way of the hillside behind him.
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very bitterly.
And the woman said, Why then have you thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king speaks this thing as one who is faulty, in that the king does not fetch home again his banished.
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why have I come from Geshur? it would have been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.