Verse 8

Then the King arose, and sate in the gate: and they tolde vnto all the people, saying, Beholde, the King doeth sit in the gate: and all the people came before the King: for Israel had fled euery man to his tent.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 18:24 : 24 Now Dauid sate betweene the two gates; the watchman went to the top of the gate vpon the wall, and lift vp his eyes, and sawe, and beholde, a man came running alone.
• 2 Sam 18:4 : 4 Then the King said vnto them, What seemeth you best, that I will doe. So the King stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreths and by thousands.
• 2 Sam 18:6-8 : 6 So the people went out into the fielde to meete Israel, and the battell was in the wood of Ephraim: 7 Where the people of Israel were slaine before the seruants of Dauid: so there was a great slaughter that day, euen of twentie thousande. 8 For the battel was skattered ouer all the countrey: and the wood deuoured much more people that day, then did the sworde.
• 2 Sam 18:17 : 17 And they tooke Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and layed a mightie great heape of stones vpon him: and all Israel fled euery one to his tent.
• 2 Sam 15:2 : 2 And Absalom rose vp early, & stoode hard by the entring in of the gate: and euery man that had any matter, & came to the King for iudgement, him did Absalom call vnto him, and sayde, Of what citie art thou? And he answered, Thy seruant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
• 2 Sam 19:3 : 3 And the people went that day into the citie secretly, as people confounded hide them selues when they flee in battell.
• 1 Kgs 22:36 : 36 And there went a proclamation thorowout the hoste about the going downe of the sunne, saying, Euery man to his citie, and euery man to his owne countrey.
• 2 Kgs 14:12 : 12 And Iudah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fledde euery man to their tents.