2 Samuel 19:15
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan. So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
So the king came back toward Jerusalem after Absalom's rebellion had been defeated and Absalom himself was dead, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and bring him across the Jordan. The moment belongs to the flight of David, the overthrow of Absalom, and the return of the king to his throne. It stands within the larger history of David's reign and its difficulties. Those difficulties included the family troubles that grew out of his taking many wives and having sons he could not control, together with his lament over Absalom, his troubles with Joab, and his numbering of the people.
The return also belongs to the retribution that followed his wicked conduct and sin against Uriah through all the rest of his life. That retribution fell principally and especially in his own family. Its events show the fulfillment of Nathan's denunciation in the judgments that came upon David. That same retribution embraced the sad history of Amnon and Tamar, the rebellion and unnatural crimes of Absalom, and even the rebellion and death of Adonijah. The story teaches that no one can break God's laws without suffering, because every transgression carries an inherent curse. Wrongdoing brings calamity and sorrow upon the wrongdoer in the very kind of evil he caused others, for what a man sows he reaps, and sin never pays except in its own kind. The detailed faithfulness with which this history is told stamps the account as inspired and shows that God does not hide the sins of even the greatest kings.