And the king said unto them, "What seemeth to you best I will do." And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

And David sat between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running alone.

And the people got themselves by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

So the people went out into the field against Israel. And the battle was in the wood of Ephraim,

For the battle there was scattered over the face of all the country; and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, "Every man to his city, and every man to his own country!"

And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their tents.