2 Samuel 15:5 CPDV

³  And Absalom would answer him: 'Your words seem good and just to me. But there is no one appointed by the king to hear you.' And Absalom would say:

⁴  'Who may appoint me judge over the land, so that all those who have a dispute might come to me, and I might judge justly.'

⁵  Then too, when a man would draw near to him, so that he might greet him, he would extend his hand, and taking hold of him, he would kiss him.

⁶  And he was doing this to all those of Israel arriving for judgment to be heard by the king. And he solicited the hearts of the men of Israel.

⁷  Then, after forty years, Absalom said to king David: 'I should go and pay my vows, which I have vowed to the Lord at Hebron.