Then the king arose and sat in the gate — And the people were told, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate — and all the people came before the king — So Israel had fled every one to his own home — David obeys Joab's command. He takes his seat in the gate—the seat of judgment and royal authority—and his people gather before him. The shift from grief-stricken isolation to public authority marks a psychological and political reorientation. Yet the phrase

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