33. You shouldn’t burden your heart with the idea that all the king’s sons are dead, Your Majesty. Only Amnon is dead.
34. Absalom has fled.”When the servant who kept watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road beside the mountain west of him.
35. Then Jonadab told the king, “The king’s sons have come. It’s just as I said.”
36. When he finished speaking, the king’s sons arrived and cried loudly. The king and all his men also cried very bitterly.
37. Absalom, however, fled to Geshur’s King Talmai, Ammihud’s son. But the king mourned for his son Amnon every day.
38. Absalom, having fled to Geshur, stayed there three years.
39. King David began to long for Absalom once people had consoled him over Amnon’s death.