2 Samuel 15:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ Whenever anyone came to Absalom and started bowing down, he would reach out and hug and kiss them. ⁶ That's how he treated everyone from Israel who brought a complaint to the king. Soon everyone in Israel liked Absalom better than they liked David.

⁷ Four years^[a] later, Absalom said to David, “Please, let me go to Hebron. I have to keep a promise that I made to the Lord,