Sa'an nan Dawuda ya ce wa fādawansa da suke tare da shi a Urushalima, “Mu tashi mu gudu, in ba haka ba ko ɗayanmu ba zai tsere daga hannun Absalom ba. Sai mu hanzarta mu gudu don kada ya tarar da mu, ya yi mana ɓarna, ya kuma kashe kowa da kowa a birnin.”