Absalom would say, "Look, your claims are good and right, but the king has no deputy to hear you."
Cross References
Proverbs 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
2 Samuel 15:4And he would add, "If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice."
Treasury of Scripture
And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear you.
thy matters
Numbers 16:3,13,14
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? …
Psalm 12:2
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
Daniel 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
there is, etc.
2 Samuel 8:15
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 21:17
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
