After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him. 1Ki 1:51Sa 8:112Sa 12:11Psa 20:71Ki 1:331Ki 10:26-29Deu 17:16Jer 22:14-16 Absalom 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?” 1Ki 3:16-282Sa 19:8Exo 18:14Exo 18:16Exo 18:26Job 24:14Mat 27:1Pro 4:16
He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.” 1Pe 2:172Pe 2:102Sa 8:15Act 23:5Dan 11:21Exo 20:12Exo 21:17Ezk 22:7 Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!” Jdg 9:292Pe 2:19Jdg 9:1-5Luk 14:8-11Pro 25:6Pro 27:2 It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him. 2Sa 14:33Pro 26:25Psa 10:9-10Psa 55:21 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. Rom 16:182Pe 2:3Pro 11:9
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the LORD, in Hebron. Isa 58:41Sa 16:1-21Sa 16:132Sa 13:24-272Sa 13:38Mat 2:8Mat 23:13Pro 21:27 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’” 2Sa 13:37-38Gen 28:20-211Sa 1:11Jer 9:3-51Sa 16:22Sa 14:232Sa 14:32Ecc 5:4
The king said to him, “Go in peace.”
So he arose and went to Hebron. But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’” 1Ch 11:31Ch 12:231Ch 12:381Ki 1:342Ki 9:132Sa 13:282Sa 14:302Sa 19:10
Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything. 1Sa 9:131Sa 22:151Sa 16:3-5Gen 20:5Mat 10:16Pro 14:15Pro 22:3Rom 16:18-19 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom. 2Sa 15:31Psa 41:9Jos 15:51Psa 55:12-14Tit 1:161Ki 21:122Sa 17:142Sa 17:23 A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.” Jdg 9:32Sa 15:6Mat 27:222Sa 3:36Mat 21:9Psa 62:9
David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, “Arise! Let’s flee, or else none of us will escape from Absalom. Hurry to depart, lest he overtake us quickly and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword.” 2Sa 19:92Sa 12:112Sa 23:16-17Ezk 46:18Luk 10:15Mat 11:12Psa 137:5-6Psa 3:1-8
The king’s servants said to the king, “Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses.” Jhn 6:66-69Luk 22:28-29Pro 18:24Jhn 15:14
The king went out, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house. 2Sa 16:21-222Sa 20:3Psa 3:1Rom 12:21Sa 25:271Sa 25:422Sa 12:11Jdg 4:10 The king went out, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak. Ecc 10:7Psa 3:1-2Psa 66:12 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king. 2Sa 8:181Ch 18:171Ki 1:381Sa 30:142Sa 20:232Sa 20:71Sa 27:32Sa 15:19-22
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place. 2Sa 18:2Rut 1:11-13 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.” 1Sa 23:132Sa 2:6Heb 11:37-38Jhn 1:172Ti 1:16-18Amo 8:12Pro 14:22Psa 25:10
Ittai answered the king and said, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.” Rut 1:16-17Pro 17:172Ki 4:302Co 7:32Ki 2:22Ki 2:42Ki 2:6Act 11:23
David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him. All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness. 2Sa 16:21Ki 2:37Jhn 18:11Ki 15:132Ch 29:16Luk 1:80Mat 3:1Mat 3:3 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down God’s ark; and Abiathar went up until all the people finished passing out of the city. 2Sa 8:17Num 4:152Sa 20:251Sa 22:201Ch 15:21Ch 6:8-121Ki 1:81Ki 2:35 The king said to Zadok, “Carry God’s ark back into the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, he will bring me again, and show me both it and his habitation; Jer 25:30Psa 26:8Psa 84:10Exo 15:13Psa 43:3-41Sa 4:3-112Sa 12:10-112Sa 6:17 but if he says, ‘I have no delight in you,’ behold, here I am. Let him do to me as seems good to him.” 1Sa 3:181Ki 10:92Sa 22:202Ch 9:8Isa 62:4Num 14:8Isa 42:1Jdg 10:15 The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar. 1Sa 9:92Sa 17:171Ch 25:52Sa 15:342Sa 15:362Sa 24:11 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me.” 2Sa 17:162Sa 15:232Sa 16:22Sa 17:1 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried God’s ark to Jerusalem again; and they stayed there. David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. Est 6:122Sa 19:4Luk 19:41Act 1:12Ezk 24:17Ezk 24:23Isa 20:2-4Jer 14:3-4
Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” 2Sa 17:142Sa 17:23Psa 41:9Jas 3:15Job 5:121Co 1:201Co 3:18-202Sa 15:12
David said, “LORD, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head. Jos 16:22Sa 1:2Psa 3:3-51Ki 11:71Ki 8:44-452Sa 13:192Sa 15:302Sa 16:16-19 David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; 2Sa 19:35 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ 2Sa 15:202Sa 16:16-192Sa 17:5-14Jos 8:2Mat 10:16 Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. 2Sa 17:15-16 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.” 2Sa 17:172Sa 15:272Sa 18:19-33
So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem. 1Ch 27:332Sa 16:15-16