2 Samuel 15:2

Modern English Version

Absalom would go early and stand beside the way into the gate. When any man who had a dispute concerning which he had come to the king for a judgment approached, Absalom would call to him and say, “Which city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:20

So Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and they spoke with the men of their city, saying,

2 Samuel 19:8

So the king arose and took his seat in the gate, and the people were all told, “Behold, the king is sitting in the gate.” So all the people came before the king, but the Israelites had fled, each to his tent.

2 Chronicles 10:7

They said to him, “If you are good to this people and please them and speak well to them, then they will be servants to you all your days.”

Job 24:14

The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

Exodus 18:14

When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.”

Exodus 18:26

They judged the people at all times. They brought the difficult cases to Moses, but they judged every small matter themselves.

Proverbs 4:16

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; their sleep is taken away unless they make someone stumble.

Daniel 11:21

“In his place a vile person shall stand up, to whom they shall not give the honor of the kingdom. But he shall come in peaceably and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Matthew 27:1

When the morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put Him to death.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there arises a matter too difficult for you in judgment, between one kind of bloodshed and another, between one kind of lawsuit and another, and between one kind of assault and another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you must arise and go up to the place where the Lord your God shall choose.

Ruth 4:1

So Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom he had spoken, passed by. So Boaz said, “Come over, friend, and sit here.” So he went over and sat down.