New Revised Standard Version
Then the king got up and took his seat in the gate. The troops were all told, “See, the king is sitting in the gate”; and all the troops came before the king. Meanwhile, all the Israelites had fled to their homes.

Contemporary English Version
David got up and went to the town gate and sat down. When the people heard that he was sitting there, they came to see him. After Israel's soldiers had all returned home,

New American Bible
So the king got up and sat at the gate. When all the people were told, “The king is sitting at the gate,” they came into his presence. Now the Israelites had fled to their separate tents,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

Then the king arose and sat in the gate: and it was told to all the people that the king sat in the gate: and all the people came before the king, but Israel fled to their own dwellings.

2 Samuel 18:4,24 And the king said to them: What seemeth good to you, that will I do. And the king stood by the gate: and all the people went forth by their troops, by hundreds and by thousands. . . .

for Israel

2 Samuel 19:3 And the people shunned the going into the city that day as a people would do that hath turned their backs, and fled away from the battle.

2 Samuel 18:6-8 So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. . . .

1 Kings 22:36 And the herald proclaimed through all the army, before the sun set, saying: Let every man return to his own city, and to his own country.

2 Kings 14:12 And Juda was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to their dwellings.