And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.
Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the people; for the people heard that day, “The king is grieving for his son.”
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very wealthy man.
The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”