And the people stole into the city that day as people steal in who are ashamed when they flee in battle.
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan with all the men of Israel.
Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
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