1 Joab was told that King David was weeping and mourning for Absalom.
2 And so the joy of victory was turned into sadness for all David's troops that day, because they heard that the king was mourning for his son.
3 They went back into the city quietly, like soldiers who are ashamed because they are running away from battle.
4 The king covered his face and cried loudly, “O my son! My son Absalom! Absalom, my son!”
5 Joab went to the king's house and said to him, “Today you have humiliated your men — the men who saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and of your wives and concubines.