Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.

All Israel rose up in unison and said, “Not one of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!

“The one being cleansed must then wash his clothes, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and so be clean. Then afterward he may enter the camp, but he must live outside his tent seven days.

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.