2 Samuel 15:13-17

13Somebody brought this message to David: ‘The Israelites are now faithful to Absalom instead of you.’

14So David said to the officers who were with him in Jerusalem, ‘We must go! We must run away! If we do not do that, no one will escape from Absalom. Hurry, or he will quickly catch us here. Then he will destroy us and our whole city!’

15The king's officers answered, ‘Our lord the king, we will do anything that you decide is right.’

16So the king left home. He took all his servants and family with him. But he left ten of his slave wives to take care of the palace.

17As King David and all his people were leaving, they stopped at the last house on the edge of Jerusalem.