5Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
5Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
2 He would get up early and stand by the side of the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone came with a complaint to be placed before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out to him, "What town are you from?" He would answer, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel."
3 Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your claims are valid and proper, but there is no representative of the king to hear you."
4 And Absalom would add, "If only I were appointed judge in the land! Then everyone who has a complaint or case could come to me and I would see that he gets justice."
5 Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him.
6 Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
7 At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, "Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord .
15:5And it was [so,] that when any man came nigh [to him] to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
15:5Moreover when any man came to him to salute him, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
15:5And it was so, that, when any man came nigh to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
15:5And it was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
15:5And it was so, that when any man came nigh to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
15:5And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
15:5It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
15:5And it hath come to pass, in the drawing nearing of any one to bow himself to him, that he hath put forth his hand, and laid hold on him, and given a kiss to him;
15:5And it was so, that when any man came near to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.