2 Samuel 19:8

²⁴Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

⁴The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

³The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

²Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

³⁶A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

⁶So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim. ⁷The people of Israel were struck there before David’s servants, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men. ⁸For the battle was there spread over the surface of all the country, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

¹⁷They took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.

¹²Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.