But Absalom fled. When the young man who kept watch looked up, he saw many people coming from the Horonaim road by the side of the mountain.
Jonadab said to the king, “See, the king’s sons have come; as your servant said, so it has come about.”
Now David was sitting between the two gates. The sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he looked up he saw a man running alone.
If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.
as if someone fled from a lion and was met by a bear or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall and was bitten by a snake.