2 Samuel 15:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I wish someone would make me the judge around here! I would be fair to everyone.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:5

Whenever anyone would come to Absalom and start bowing down, he would reach out and hug and kiss them.

Proverbs 25:6

Don't try to seem important in the court of a ruler.

Proverbs 27:2

Don't boast about yourself— let others praise you.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise freedom to everyone. But they are merely slaves of filthy living, because people are slaves of whatever controls them.

Judges 9:29

If I were the ruler of Shechem, I'd get rid of that Abimelech. I'd tell him, “Get yourself an even bigger army, and we will still defeat you.”