And David passed over to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

A wise man, when evils are approaching, hides himself, but fools pass on, and will be punished.

"Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war with us, and not one is missing.

so that the word might be fulfilled which He said, "[Those] whom You have given Me I have lost none."