2 Samuel 15:3-7
2 Samuel 15:3
Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but you have no one to listen to you on the part of the king.”
2 Samuel 15:4
Moreover, Absalom would say, “Oh that someone would appoint me judge in the land, then every man who has a lawsuit or claim could come to me, and I would give him justice!”
2 Samuel 15:5
And whenever a man approached to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.
2 Samuel 15:6
Absalom dealt this way with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel.
2 Samuel 15:7
Now it came about at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the Lord, in Hebron.