2 Samuel 15:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ Absalom would say, ‘See, your claims are good and right; but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you.’ ⁴ Absalom said moreover, ‘If only I were judge in the land! Then all who had a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give them justice.’ ⁵ Whenever people came near to do obeisance to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of them, and kiss them.