2 Samuel 19:7-9

New King James Version

⁷ Now therefore, arise, go out and speak ^[a]comfort to your servants. For I swear by the Lord, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.” 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.

David Returns to Jerusalem

⁹ Now all the people were in a dispute throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king saved us from the hand of our ^(C)enemies, he delivered us from the hand of the ^(D)Philistines, and now he has ^(E)fled from the land because of Absalom.