David viewing the armies in their march, giveth them charge of Absalom, 2Sa_18:1-5; whose men are smitten: he hanging by his hair on an oak, is slain by Joab, and cast into a pit: his pillar and monument, 2Sa_18:6-18. David hearing hereof, 2Sa_18:19-32, mourneth for Absalom, 2Sa_18:33.
The people that were with him; which flocked to him thither, so as to make up a small army.