Then Joab sent a full battle report to David.

So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.

When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.

(19:2) Joab was told, “The king is weeping and mourning over Absalom.”

When David was told what Rizpah daughter of Aiah, Saul’s concubine, had done,

When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, and came to Helam. The Arameans deployed their forces against David and fought with him.

But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said, “If he is by himself, he brings good news.” The runner came ever closer.

David was told, “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

So Joab went to the king and informed him. The king summoned Absalom, and he came to the king. Absalom bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and the king kissed him.

Gad went to David and told him, “Shall seven years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what I should tell the one who sent me.”