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So for two years Absalom was in Jerusalem without sight of the king; (2 Samuel 14, 28)
Why, answered Absalom, I was fain to see thee; it was my thought to send thee to the king, and ask him why he brought me home from Gessur. Better have stayed there; pray win me admittance to the king’s presence, or let him put me to death if he cannot forgive the wrong. (2 Samuel 14, 32)
So Joab went and repeated this to the king, and Absalom was summoned into the king’s presence. Low he bowed before him, with his face to the ground; but David greeted Absalom with a kiss. (2 Samuel 14, 33)
He would rise early, and stand at the entrance to the gate, beckoning to him everyone who had business that called for the king’s award, asking what city he came from, and, if he mentioned one of the Israelite tribes,✻ (2 Samuel 15, 2)
telling him, Thy pleadings seem to me well-founded and just, but the king has not appointed any judge to try thy cause. Ah, said Absalom, (2 Samuel 15, 3)
So he did to all the men of Israel who came up to get a hearing from the king, and stole away the hearts of the Israelites. (2 Samuel 15, 6)
Then, in the fortieth year of the reign,✻ Absalom said to David, Grant me leave to go to Hebron and pay a vow I made to the Lord. (2 Samuel 15, 7)
Go, said David, and peace go with thee. To Hebron, then, he went, (2 Samuel 15, 9)
and meanwhile he had sent agents of his throughout all the tribes of Israel, bidding them wait till they heard the trumpet sound, and then raise the cry, Absalom is king! Absalom reigns at Hebron! (2 Samuel 15, 10)
He also invited from Gilo Achitophel, the Gilonite that was David’s own counsellor. So Absalom began to offer his victims, and his conspiracy grew ever stronger, and the number ever greater that came to his support. (2 Samuel 15, 12)
Soon a messenger came and told David that the whole of Israel was giving its allegiance to Absalom; (2 Samuel 15, 13)
And his servants answered, We are at the command of our lord the king, we will do his bidding. (2 Samuel 15, 15)
