If you don’t go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall

2 Samuel 19:1-18

The king covered his face and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”

Then Joab went into the house to the king and said, “Today you have humiliated all your men, who have just saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the lives of your wives and concubines.

I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come on you from your youth till now.”

So the king got up and took his seat in the gateway. When the men were told, “The king is sitting in the gateway,” they all came before him.

King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Ask the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his palace, since what is being said throughout Israel has reached the king at his quarters? You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to bring back the king?’

The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies; he is the one who rescued us from the hand of the Philistines

Now the men of Judah had come to Gilgal to go out and meet the king and bring him across the Jordan. Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, hurried down with the men of Judah to meet King David. With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba, the steward of Saul’s household, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was. They crossed at the ford to take the king’s household over and to do whatever he wished.

Why?

David forgot he is the King of Israel and Judah, and David remain called in the sad mode of his son Absalom dead. This would discourage his followers, so Jaob said the right word before David.

After Absalon was dead, Israelites thought David should be their king and the king delivered us from the hand of our enemies; he is the one who rescued us from the hand of the Philistines. So all of them return back to David.

How?

We have emotions but we should make clear what is more important around us. Don't be emotional to do jobs!