David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

But he refused to listen to her. He overpowered her and humiliated her by raping her.

Then Absalom happened to come across David’s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his mule, it went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, while the mule he had been riding kept going.

But the king’s edict stood, despite the objections of Joab and the leaders of the army. So Joab and the leaders of the army left the king’s presence in order to muster the Israelite army.