2 Samuel 15:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

Absalom Usurps the Throne

15 After this Absalom got himself a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run ahead of him. ² Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate; and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgement, Absalom would call out and say, ‘From what city are you?’ When the person said, ‘Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel’, ³ Absalom would say, ‘See, your claims are good and right; but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you.’