35 And Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the king’s sons are coming; as your servant said, so it is.”

36 So it was, as soon as he had finished speaking, that the king’s sons indeed came, and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also the king and all his servants wept very bitterly.

38 So Absalom fled and went to ^aGeshur, and was there three years.  ‡

39 And¹ King David longed to go to Absalom. For he had been ^acomforted concerning Amnon, because he was dead. ‡