So the victory that day was turned into mourning for all the troops, for the troops heard it said that day, “The king is grieving over his son.”
Why did you secretly flee away, and steal from me? Why didn’t you tell me, so I could send you away with joy and with songs, with tambourines and with lyres?
David had reached Mahanaim by the time Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
Then Joab was told, “Look, the king is weeping and mourning over Absalom!”
Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and he approached the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.
So the troops entered into the city stealthily that day, like troops who are ashamed after running away in battle.