2 Samuel 15:1-2

Contemporary English Version

Absalom Rebels against David

15 Some time later, Absalom got himself a chariot with horses to pull it, and he had 50 men 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.^[a] 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,”