⁴ Then the king said to them, “Whatever seems best to you I will do.” So the king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

²⁴ Now David was sitting between the ^(A)two gates. And the watchman went up to the roof over the gate, to the wall, lifted his eyes and looked, and there was a man, running alone.

Absalom’s Defeat and Death

18 And David ^[a]numbered the people who were with him, and ^(A)set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

² And the ^(A)lords of the Philistines ^[a]passed in review by hundreds and by thousands, but ^(B)David and his men passed in review at the rear with Achish.