3. Then Absalom would say to him, “Look, your claim is good and right, but there is no one to hear you on behalf of the king.”
4. Absalom would continue, “If I were appointed a judge in the land, then every man who had a claim could come and I would give him justice.”
5. When a man would approach to bow before him, he would reach out, embrace him, and kiss him.
6. Absalom acted this way toward every Israelite who came to the king for a judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.