2 Samuel 15:4

New International Reader's Version

Absalom would continue, “I wish I were appointed judge in the land! Then anyone who has a case or a claim could come to me. I would make sure they are treated fairly.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:5

Sometimes people would approach Absalom and bow down to him. Then he would reach out his hand. He would take hold of them and kiss them.

Proverbs 25:6

Don’t brag in front of the king. Don’t claim a place among his great men.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another person praise you, and not your own mouth. Let an outsider praise you, and not your own lips.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise to give freedom to these new believers. But they themselves are slaves to sinful living. That’s because “people are slaves to anything that controls them.”

Judges 9:29

I wish these people were under my command. Then I would get rid of Abimelek. I would say to him, ‘Call out your whole army!’ ”