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|2 Samuel 15:1|
Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.
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|2 Samuel 15:2|
And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
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|2 Samuel 15:3|
And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.
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|2 Samuel 15:4|
And more than this, Absalom said, If only I was made judge in the land, so that every man who has any cause or question might come to me, and I would give a right decision for him!
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|2 Samuel 15:5|
And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.
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|2 Samuel 15:6|
And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.
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|2 Samuel 15:7|
Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:
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|2 Samuel 15:8|
For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
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|2 Samuel 15:9|
And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.
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|2 Samuel 15:10|
But Absalom at the same time sent watchers through all the tribes of Israel to say, At the sound of the horn you are to say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
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