2 Samuel 19:5

1Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”

2The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”

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

4The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

5Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;

6in that you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well.

7Now therefore arise, go out and speak to comfort your servants; for I swear by the LORD, if you don’t go out, not a man will stay with you this night. That would be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.”

8Then the king arose and sat in the gate. The people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

9All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.