2 Samuel 19:8

All the people came before the king . Probably they passed in review before him, and received his thanks. By thus acting in accordance with Joab's wise counsel, David probably saved the nation from years of anarchy, and a fresh civil war. For Israel had fled every man to his tent; Hebrew, and Israel, that is, Absalom's partisans, fled each man to his tent —to his home. The Authorized Version confounds Israel with David's soldiers, but consistently throughout the narrative "the hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom" ( 2 Samuel 15:13 ; and see 2 Samuel 16:15 , 2 Samuel 16:18 ; 2 Samuel 17:14 , 2 Samuel 17:15 , 2 Samuel 17:24 , 2 Samuel 17:26 ; 2 Samuel 18:6 , 2 Samuel 18:7 , 2 Samuel 18:16 , 2 Samuel 18:17 ).