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So the king arose and sat in the gate. When they told all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is asitting in the gate," then all the people came before the king.
a
2 Samuel 15:2, 2 Samuel 18:24
2 Samuel 15
2
Absalom used to rise early and astand 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."
2 Samuel 18
24
Now aDavid was sitting between the two gates; and bthe watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.