2 Samuel 13:34

In the meantime, Absalom ran away. Just then, the soldier/sentry who was standing on the city wall saw a large crowd of people coming down the hill along the road from Horonaim. He ran and told the king what he had seen.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

In Context

33So, your majesty, do not believe the report that all your sons are dead. I am sure that only Amnon is dead.”

35Jonadab said to the king, “Aha! What I told you is true. Your other sons are alive and have come!”

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Cross References

2 Samuel 13:37But Absalom had fled. He went to stay with the king of the Geshur region, who was Talmai the son of Ammihud. Absalom stayed there for three years. David mourned for his son Amnon for a long time,

Amos 5:19At that time, when you try to run from a lion, you will face a bear. When you run into your house to be safe, and you put your hand on a wall, it will be bitten by a snake.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 13:31-39

Amnon's Death; Absalom's Flight. ( b. c. 1032.) 30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left. 31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent. 32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by… Read the whole commentary →

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