⁴ The king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood at the side of the gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.

²⁴ Now David ^(A)was sitting between the two gates, and ^(B)the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and when he lifted up his eyes and looked, he saw a man running alone.

Absalom Killed

18 Then David mustered the men who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

² As ^(A)the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear ^(B)with Achish,