No sooner had he finished speaking than the king’s sons came in, weeping aloud. The king, too, and all his servants wept very bitterly.
His servants said to him: “What is this you are doing? While the child was living, you fasted and wept and kept vigil; now that the child is dead, you rise and take food.”
Then Amnon felt intense hatred for her; the hatred he felt for her far surpassed the love he had had for her. Amnon said to her, “Get up, leave.”
So Jonadab said to the king: “There! The king’s sons have come. It is as your servant said.”
But Absalom, who had taken flight, went to Talmai, son of Ammihud, king of Geshur,