2 Samuel 15:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

² Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate; and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgement, Absalom would call out and say, ‘From what city are you?’ When the person said, ‘Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel’, ³ Absalom would say, ‘See, your claims are good and right; but there is no one deputed by the king to hear you.’ ⁴ Absalom said moreover, ‘If only I were judge in the land! Then all who had a suit or cause might come to me, and I would give them justice.’