34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

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34 Meanwhile, Absalom had fled.

Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, “I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 13:34 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have this sentence.

35 And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

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35 Jonadab said to the king, “See, the king’s sons have come; it has happened just as your servant said.”

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