18:24 Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, 1 and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.
19:8 So the king got up and sat at the city gate. When all the people were informed that the king was sitting at the city gate, they 2 all came before him.
But the Israelite soldiers 3 had all fled to their own homes. 4
1 tn Heb “the two gates.”
2 tn Heb “all the people.”
3 tn The Hebrew text has simply “Israel” (see 18:16-17).
4 tn Heb “had fled, each to his tent.”