2 Samuel 19:8

David rose and sat in the gate, and the people gathered before him as Israel's tribes scattered home. It matters because David's return to his post restored order after the rebellion.

Cross-references · 8

• 2 Sam 18:24Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
• 2 Sam 18:4The king said to them, “I will do what seems best to you.” The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
• 2 Sam 18:6–8So the people went out into the field against Israel; and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
• 2 Kgs 14:12Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.
• 1 Kgs 22:36A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”
• 2 Sam 15:2Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”
• 2 Sam 18:17They took Absalom and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, each to his own tent.
• 2 Sam 19:3The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

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