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2 Samuel 14:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

24 But the king said, “Let him go off to his own house; he shall not appear before[a] me.” So Absalom went off to his house and did not appear before the king.

25 In all Israel there was no man more praised for his beauty than Absalom, flawless from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 26 When he shaved his head—as he used to do at the end of every year, because his hair became too heavy for him—the hair weighed two hundred shekels according to the royal standard.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:24 Appear before: lit., “see the face of,” a term from court etiquette; so also in vv. 28, 32.
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