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The entire army crept back into the city as though they were ashamed and had been beaten in battle.

The king covered his face with his hands and kept on weeping, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom my son, my son!”

Then Joab went to the king’s room and said to him, “We saved your life today and the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and concubines; and yet you act like this, making us feel ashamed, as though we had done something wrong.

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