Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenever anyone who had a (A)lawsuit[a] came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:2 Lit. controversy

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