2 Samuel 15:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Absalom got up early, morning after morning, and took his place at the side of the public meeting-place: and when any man had a cause which had to come to the king to be judged, then Absalom, crying out to him, said, What is your town? and he would say, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 34:20

Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.

2 Chronicles 10:7

And they said to him, If you are kind to this people, pleasing them and saying good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.

Job 24:14

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Exodus 18:14

And when Moses' father-in-law saw all he was doing, he said, What is this you are doing for the people? why are you seated here by yourself, with all the people waiting before you from morning till evening?

Exodus 18:16

And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.

Exodus 18:26

And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

Proverbs 4:16

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

Daniel 11:21

And his place will be taken by a low person, to whom the honour of the kingdom had not been given: but he will come in time of peace and will get the kingdom by fair words.

Matthew 27:1

Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If you are not able to give a decision as to who is responsible for a death, or who is right in a cause, or who gave the first blow in a fight, and there is a division of opinion about it in your town: then go to the place marked out by the Lord your God;

Ruth 4:1

And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.