³ The people got them by stealth that day into the city, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

²⁷ Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

²⁴ Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

³² Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.