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.”
5 And it came to be, whenever anyone came near him to bow down to him, that he would put out his hand and take him and kiss him.
6 And Aḇshalom did this to all Yisra’ĕl who came to the sovereign for right-ruling. And Aḇshalom stole the hearts of the men of Yisra’ĕl.
7 And it came to be at the end of four years that Aḇshalom said to the sovereign, “Please, let me go to Ḥeḇron and pay the vow which I vowed to יהוה.
8 “For your servant vowed a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If יהוה indeed brings me back to Yerushalayim, then I shall serve יהוה.’ ”
9 And the sovereign said to him, “Go in peace.” And he rose up and went to Ḥeḇron.