Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur?
It would be better for me to be there still.
Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”’”
So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.