2 Samuel 19:7-9

Expanded Bible

⁷ Now go out and ·encourage [reassure; speak kindly to] your servants. I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, ·no man will be left with you by tonight [^Lnot one man will stay with you tonight]! That will be worse than ·all the troubles [any disaster/evil] you have had from your youth until today.”

⁸ So the king went to the city gate [^Ca place where public meetings and court cases were held; 15:2]. When the news spread that the king was at the gate, ·everyone [all the soldiers] came to see him.

David Goes Back to Jerusalem

·All the Israelites who had followed Absalom [^LIsrael] had run away to their ·homes [^Ltents]. ⁹ People in all the tribes of Israel began to argue, saying, “The king ·saved [rescued; ^Tdelivered] us from the Philistines and our other enemies, but he ·left [fled] the country because of Absalom.