2 Samuel 19:9-11

Legacy Standard Bible

⁹ And it happened that all the people were disputing throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “^(A)The king delivered us from the ^[a]hand of our enemies and ^(B)provided us escape from the ^[b]hand of the Philistines, but now ^(C)he has fled out of the land from Absalom. ¹⁰ However, Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in battle. So now, why are you silent about having the king return?”

¹¹ Now King David had sent to ^(D)Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to have the king return to his house, while the word of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house?