<t /><p class="bodytext">Some time later Absalom managed to acquire<n id="1" /> a chariot and horses, as well as fifty men to serve as his royal guard.<n id="2" />

Then David summoned him. He ate and drank with him, and got him drunk. But in the evening he went out to sleep on his bed with the servants of his lord; he did not go down to his own house.p>

But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, &#8220;Get everyone out of here!&#8221;<n id="1" /> So everyone left.<n id="2" />p>