Absalom fled; he who had undertaken to defend his servants flees or his own life. Behind him; behind the watchman; for it seems they did not come in the direct road, where the watchman looked for them, but (for some reason or fancy they had) fetched a compass, and came that way which he least expected them.
Related Commentaries of 2 Samuel 13:34
2 Samuel 13:34
34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.