3. Absalom would say, “You deserve to win your case. But the king doesn't have anyone to hear complaints like yours.
4. I wish someone would make me the judge around here! I would be fair to everyone.”
5. Whenever anyone would come to Absalom and start bowing down, he would reach out and hug and kiss them.
6. That's how he treated everyone from Israel who brought a complaint to the king. Soon everyone in Israel liked Absalom better than they liked David.
7. Four years later, Absalom said to David, “Please, let me go to Hebron. I have to keep a promise that I made to the Lord,