2 Samuel 15:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the road into the gate, and when anyone brought a suit before the king for judgment, Absalom would call out and say, “From what city are you?” When the person said, “Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,”

Cross References

Matthew 27:1

When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus in order to bring about his death.

Proverbs 4:16

For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at dusk to kill the poor and needy and in the night is like a thief.

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king got up and took his seat in the gate. The troops were all told, “See, the king is sitting in the gate,” and all the troops came before the king. Meanwhile, all the Israelites had fled to their homes.

Ruth 4:1

No sooner had Boaz gone up to the gate and sat down there than the next-of-kin of whom Boaz had spoken came passing by. So Boaz said, “Come over; sit down here.” And he went over and sat down.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all times; hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves.

Exodus 18:16

When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.”

Exodus 18:14

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

Genesis 34:20

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

Deuteronomy 17:8

“If a judicial decision is too difficult for you to make between one kind of bloodshed and another, one kind of legal right and another, or one kind of assault and another—any such matters of dispute in your towns—then you shall immediately go up to the place that the Lord your God will choose,

2 Chronicles 10:7

They answered him, “If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Daniel 11:21

In his place shall arise a contemptible person on whom royal majesty had not been conferred; he shall come in suddenly and seize the kingdom through intrigue.