2 Samuel 19:7-9

Legacy Standard Bible

⁷ So now, arise, go out and speak to the heart of your servants, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, surely ^(A)not a man will pass the night with you, and this will be of greater evil for you than all the evil that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

David Returns to Jerusalem

⁸ So the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, “Behold, the king is ^(B)sitting in the gate.” Then all the people came before the king.

Now ^(C)Israel had fled, each to his tent. ⁹ And it happened that all the people were disputing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “^(D)The king delivered us from the ^[a]hand of our enemies and ^(E)provided us escape from the ^[b]hand of the Philistines, but now ^(F)he has fled out of the land from Absalom.