2 Samuel 19:8
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8 Then the king arose and sat in the (A)gate. And they told all the people, saying, “There is the king, sitting in the gate.” So all the people came before the king.
For everyone of Israel had (B)fled to his tent.
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2 Samuel 18:24
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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.
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2 Samuel 18:4
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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.
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2 Kings 14:12
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12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent.
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1 Kings 22:36
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36 Then, as the sun was going down, a shout went throughout the army, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his own country!”
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2 Samuel 19:3
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3 And the people [a]stole back (A)into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
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- 2 Samuel 19:3 went by stealth
2 Samuel 18:17
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17 And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and (A)laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel (B)fled, everyone to his tent.
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2 Samuel 18:6-8
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6 So the people went out into the field of battle against Israel. And the battle was in the (A)woods of Ephraim. 7 The people of Israel were overthrown there before the servants of David, and a great slaughter of twenty thousand took place there that day. 8 For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
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2 Samuel 15:2
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2 Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenever anyone who had a (A)lawsuit[a] came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Israel.”
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- 2 Samuel 15:2 Lit. controversy
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