2 Samuel 19:3

New International Version

The men stole into the city that day as men steal in who are ashamed when they flee from battle.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of timbrels and harps?

2 Samuel 17:24

David went to Mahanaim, and Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 19:2

And for the whole army the victory that day was turned into mourning, because on that day the troops heard it said, “The king is grieving for his son.”

2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years of age. He had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

2 Samuel 19:4

The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”