Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your [a]case is good and right; but there is no [b]deputy of the king to hear you.” Moreover Absalom would say, (A)“Oh, that I were made judge in the land, and everyone who has any suit or cause would come to me; then I would give him justice.” And so it was, whenever anyone came near to bow down to him, that he would put out his hand and take him and (B)kiss him.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:3 Lit. words
  2. 2 Samuel 15:3 Lit. listener

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