2 Samuel 19:9-11

Revised Geneva Translation

⁹ Then all the people were quarreling throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he has fled out of the land for Absalom!

¹⁰ “And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle! Therefore, why are you so slow to bring the king back?”

¹¹ But King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, and say, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the saying of all Israel has come to the king, to his house?