2 Samuel 15:2

Webster Bible (1833)

And Absalom rose early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is one of the tribes of Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 34:20

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

2 Samuel 19:8

Then the king rose, and sat in the gate. And they told to all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

2 Chronicles 10:7

And they spoke to him, saying, If thou wilt be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words to them, they will be thy servants for ever.

Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Exodus 18:14

And when Moses's father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening?

Exodus 18:16

When they have a matter, they come to me, and I judge between one and another, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Exodus 18:26

And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought to Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

Proverbs 4:16

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Daniel 11:21

And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, 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 was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.

Deuteronomy 17:8

If there shall arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and go up to the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;

Ruth 4:1

Then Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there: and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.