2 Samuel 19:3-5

Easy-to-Read Version

³ The people came into the city quietly as if they were the ones who had been defeated in battle. ⁴ The king had covered his face and was crying loudly, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

⁵ Joab came into the king’s palace and said to the king, “You are humiliating every one of your officers! Look, they saved your life today and the lives of your sons and daughters and your wives and slave women.