1. AFTER THIS, Absalom got a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
2. And [he] rose up early and stood beside the gateway; and when any man who had a controversy came to the king for judgment, Absalom called to him, Of what city are you? And he would say, Your servant is of such and such a tribe of Israel.
3. Absalom would say to him, Your claims are good and right, but there is no man appointed as the king's agent to hear you.