The brook Kidron. —A valley with a watercourse, filled in winter, lying immediately east of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mo…

Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a strang…

And all the country wept with a loud voice
The people that came out of the country villages round about, upon the re…

David determined to leave Jerusalem. He took this resolve as a penitent submitting to the rod. Before unrighteous Absalom, he could justify himself…