1. Some time later, Absalom got himself a chariot with horses to pull it, and he had fifty men to run in front.
2. He would get up early each morning and wait by the side of the road that led to the city gate. Anyone who had a complaint to bring to King David would have to go that way, and Absalom would ask each of them, “Where are you from?”If they said, “I'm from a tribe in the north,”
3. Absalom would say, “You deserve to win your case. But the king doesn't have anyone to hear complaints like yours.
4. I wish someone would make me the judge around here! I would be fair to everyone.”
5. Whenever anyone would come to Absalom and start bowing down, he would reach out and hug and kiss them.
6. That's how he treated everyone from Israel who brought a complaint to the king. Soon everyone in Israel liked Absalom better than they liked David.