TSK
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge references in NET.
Then the king said to them,“I will do whatever seems best to you.”So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.
That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.
Judah was defeated by Israel, and each man ran back home.