1. And it came to be after this that Aḇshalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.
2. And Aḇshalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. And it came to be, whenever anyone who had a complaint came to the sovereign for a right-ruling, that Aḇshalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And when he said, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Yisra’ĕl,”
3. Aḇshalom would say to him, “Look, your matters are good and right, but you have nobody from the sovereign to hear you.”
4. And Aḇshalom would say, “Oh, that I were made judge in the land, and everyone who has any complaint or case would come to me, and I shall let right be done to him.”