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2 Samuel 13:34, NLT

34Meanwhile Absalom escaped.

Then the watchman on the Jerusalem wall saw a great crowd coming down the hill on the road from the west. He ran to tell the king, “I see a crowd of people coming from the Horonaim road along the side of the hill.”*13:34 As in Greek version; Hebrew lacks this sentence.