Common English Bible

2 Samuel 13:33-39 Common English Bible (CEB)

33. So don’t let this bother you, my master; don’t think that all the princes are dead, because only Amnon is dead,

34. and Absalom has fled." Just then the young man on watch looked up and saw many people coming on the road behind him alongside the mountain.

35. Jonadab told the king, "Look, the princes are coming, just as I, your servant, said they would."

36. When Jonadab finished speaking, the princes arrived. They broke into loud crying, and the king and his servants cried hard as well.

37. Meanwhile, Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur’s King Talmai, Ammihud’s son. David mourned for his son a long time.

38. But Absalom, after fleeing to Geshur, stayed there for three years.

39. Then the king’s desire to go out after Absalom faded away because he had gotten over Amnon’s death.