3 Then Absalom would say, “Look, your claims are right, but the king has no one to listen to you.”
4 Absalom would also say, “I wish someone would make me judge in this land! Then people with problems could come to me, and I could help them get justice.”
5 People would come near Absalom to bow to him. When they did, Absalom would reach out his hand and take hold of them and kiss them.
6 Absalom did that to all the Israelites who came to King David for decisions. In this way, Absalom stole the hearts of all Israel.
7 After four years Absalom said to King David, “Please let me go to Hebron. I want to carry out my promise that I made to the Lord
8 while I was living in Geshur in Aram. I said, ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship him in Hebron.’ ”
9 The king said, “Go in peace.”So Absalom went to Hebron.