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The army came secretly[a] into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle, and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, “My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.”

Then Joab came to the king’s house and said, “Today you have humiliated the faces of all of your servants who have saved your life this day, and the life of your sons and your daughters, the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines,

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  1. 2 Samuel 19:3 Literally “stole secretly to come”