So Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem. ¹ 

The king replied to him, “Go in peace.” So Absalom ¹  got up and went to Hebron.

Then the king stood up and tore his garments and lay down on the ground. All his servants were standing there with torn garments as well.

When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken ¹  to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

Then Joab got up and came to Absalom’s house. He said to him, “Why did your servants set my portion of field on fire?”

David and all the men who were with him traveled ¹  to ²  Baalah ³  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ⁴  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. ¹  From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. ² 

So David got up from the ground, bathed, put on oil, and changed his clothes. He went to the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then, when he entered his palace, he requested that food be brought to him, and he ate.

So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. ¹  By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.

When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹  of his father.

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 ¹  all came before him.But the Israelite soldiers ²  had all fled to their own homes. ³