2 Samuel 19:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ Now get up and restore the morale of^[a] your army. I swear by the Lord that if you don’t get out there, you won’t have a single man left in your army^[b] by nightfall! You’ll be in more trouble today than all the disasters you’ve been through from your boyhood until now!” ⁸ So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the army was informed, “The king is sitting in the gateway!” they all gathered together in his presence.

David is Reinstated as King

Meanwhile, the Israelis had run away back to their own homes. ⁹ Throughout the tribes of Israel, everyone was quarreling with one another:

“The king delivered us from the domination of our enemies….”

“He’s the one who rescued us from Philistine control….”

“Now he’s fleeing the country because of Absalom…!”