²⁴ However, the king said, “He shall return to ^(A)his own house, but he shall not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house and did not see the king’s face.

²⁵ Now in all Israel there was no one as handsome as Absalom, so highly praised; ^(B)from the sole of his foot to the top of his head there was no impairment in him. ²⁶ And when he ^(C)cut the hair of his head (and it was at the end of every year that he cut it, because it was heavy on him, so he cut it), he weighed the hair of his head at ^[a]two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.