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Absalom then summoned Joab, intending to send him to the king, but Joab would not come to him. He sent for him a second time, but still he would not come. (2 Samuel 14, 29)
At this, Absalom said to his retainers, 'Look, Joab's field is next to mine and he has barley in it; go and set it on fire.' Absalom's retainers set fire to the field. (2 Samuel 14, 30)
Joab then stirred himself, went to Absalom in his house and asked, 'Why have your retainers set my field on fire?' (2 Samuel 14, 31)
Absalom replied to Joab, 'Look, I sent word to you: Come here, so that I can send you to the king to say, "Why come back from Geshur? Better for me to have been there still!" Now I want to be received by the king, and if I am guilty, let him put me to death!' (2 Samuel 14, 32)
Joab went to the king and told him this. He then summoned Absalom, who prostrated himself with his face to the ground before the king. And the king kissed Absalom. (2 Samuel 14, 33)
After this, Absalom procured a chariot and horses, with fifty men to run ahead of him. (2 Samuel 15, 1)
He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate; and whenever a man with some lawsuit had to come before the king's tribunal, Absalom would call out to him and ask, 'Which town are you from?' If he answered, 'Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.' (2 Samuel 15, 2)
then Absalom would say, 'Look, your case is sound and just, but not one of the king's deputies will listen to you.' (2 Samuel 15, 3)
Absalom would say, 'Oh, who will appoint me judge in the land? Then anyone with a lawsuit or a plea could come to me and I should see he had justice!' (2 Samuel 15, 4)
Absalom acted like this with every Israelite who appealed to the king's tribunal, and so Absalom won the Israelites' hearts. (2 Samuel 15, 6)
When four years had gone by, Absalom said to the king, 'Allow me to go to Hebron and fulfil the vow which I have made to Yahweh; (2 Samuel 15, 7)
Absalom sent couriers throughout the tribes of Israel to say, 'When you hear the trumpet sound, you are to say, "Absalom is king at Hebron!" ' (2 Samuel 15, 10)