So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
Observe here, I. Orders given for the bringing back of Absalom. The errand on which the woman came to David was so agreeable, and her management of it so very ingenious and surprising, that he was brought into a peculiarly kind humour: Go (says he to Joab), bring the young man Absalom again, Sa2 14:21.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 14:21-27
So Joab arose and went to Geshur,.... Where Absalom was with his grandfather, the king of the place; see Sa2 13:37, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; from thence, which, according to Bunting (t), was the distance of eighty eight miles from it. (t) Travels, &c. p 146, 148.
2Sa 14:23 Joab then went to Geshur (see 2Sa 13:37), and fetched Absalom back to Jerusalem.