Absalom fled. Now when the servant who was keeping watch looked up, and behold, many people were coming from the road behind him, around the hill.
So Jonadab said to the king, “Behold, the king’s sons are coming. As your servant spoke, so it is.”
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gate, to the city wall. He lifted his eyes and saw a man running by himself.
If a man is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death; let no one help him.
as if someone fled away from a lion, but a bear attacked him, or got into the house and rested his hand on the wall, but a snake bit him.