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Tour · c. 980 BC
Absalom's revolt
Hebron 2 Sam 15:7–12
Absalom goes to Hebron as if to pay a vow, and sends spies through the tribes: at the sound of the trumpet they are to say, "Absalom reigneth in Hebron."
Open on the map →Kidron 2 Sam 15:13–23 · ≈ 31 km in a straight line
David flees Jerusalem, and the king and all the people pass over the brook Kidron toward the wilderness, all the country weeping.
Open on the map →Mount of Olives 2 Sam 15:30–37
He goes up the Mount of Olives weeping, barefoot and with his head covered, and sends Hushai back to Jerusalem.
Open on the map →Bahurim 2 Sam 16:5–14
At Bahurim Shimei of the house of Saul curses him and throws stones; David will not have him killed: "let him curse."
Open on the map →Jerusalem 2 Sam 16:15–23 · ≈ 3 km in a straight line
Absalom enters Jerusalem and, on Ahithophel's counsel, goes in to his father's concubines before all Israel.
Open on the map →Ephraim 2 Sam 18:6–17 · ≈ 84 km in a straight line
In the wood of Ephraim Absalom's army is beaten; his head caught in an oak, he hangs there, and Joab thrusts three darts into his heart while he is yet alive; Joab's young men slay him.
Open on the map →Mahanaim 2 Sam 18:19–33 · ≈ 23 km in a straight line
At Mahanaim, sitting between the two gates, David hears the news and weeps: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!"
Open on the map →Gilgal 2 Sam 19:15–40 · ≈ 40 km in a straight line
The men of Judah come to Gilgal to bring the king back over the Jordan.
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