So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
After Amnon was killed at Absalom's command, Absalom fled to Geshur, where his maternal grandfather Talmai was king. That flight was the beginning of Absalom's alienation from his father. After the flight David refused him permission to return, because his crime demanded some punishment. That refusal increased rather than lessened the tangled evils in which David was involved, continuing the evils that followed his unjust indulgence toward Amnon. Shut out by exile from participation in the affairs of the kingdom, Absalom, who was energetic, ambitious, and unprincipled, soon gave himself up to dangerous scheming.
After Amnon was killed at Absalom's command, Absalom fled to Geshur, where his maternal grandfather Talmai was king. That flight was the beginning of Absalom's alienation from his father. After the flight David refused him permission to return, because his crime demanded some punishment. That refusal increased rather than lessened the tangled evils in which David was involved, continuing the evils that followed his unjust indulgence toward Amnon. Shut out by exile from participation in the affairs of the kingdom, Absalom, who was energetic, ambitious, and unprincipled, soon gave himself up to dangerous scheming.