Then the king said, “Turn aside and stand here.” So he turned aside and stood still.

Then he said to me, ‘Please stand beside me and kill me, for agony has seized me because my life still lingers in me.’

Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.”