2 Samuel 15:2

New King James Version

Now Absalom would rise early and stand beside the way to the gate. So it was, whenever anyone who had a lawsuit came to the king for a decision, that Absalom would call to him and say, “What city are you from?” And he would say, “Your servant is from such and such a tribe of Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:20

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

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king arose and sat in the gate. And they told all the people, saying, “There is the king, sitting in the gate.” So all the people came before the king. For everyone of Israel had fled to his tent.

2 Chronicles 10:7

And they spoke to him, saying, “If you are kind to these people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.

Exodus 18:14

So when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he did for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit, and all the people stand before you from morning until evening?”

Exodus 18:16

When they have a difficulty, they come to me, and I judge between one and another; and I make known the statutes of God and His laws.”

Exodus 18:26

So they judged the people at all times; the hard cases they brought to Moses, but they judged every small case themselves.

Proverbs 4:16

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

Daniel 11:21

And in his place shall arise a vile person, to whom they will not give the honor of royalty; but he shall come in peaceably, and seize the kingdom by intrigue.

Matthew 27:1

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

Deuteronomy 17:8

“If a matter arises which is too hard for you to judge, between degrees of guilt for bloodshed, between one judgment or another, or between one punishment or another, matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the Lord your God chooses.

Ruth 4:1

Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there; and behold, the close relative of whom Boaz had spoken came by. So Boaz said, “Come aside, friend, sit down here.” So he came aside and sat down.