³ And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.

³² Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. ^(A)He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.

²⁴ Then David came to ^(A)Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.

²⁷ Why did you flee secretly ^(A)and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?