³ And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.

²⁷ Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

²⁴ And David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom, with all the men of Israel, went over Jordan.

³² Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.