²⁴ Nevertheless, the king said, “Let him return to his own home and not show his face to me.” So Absalom returned to his own home and did not show his face to the king.

David’s Son Absalom

²⁵ Now throughout all of Israel no one was as handsome as Absalom or so highly praised, from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there wasn’t a single thing wrong about him. ²⁶ Whenever he cut his hair —he cut it at the end of every year, because it grew thick on his head,^[a] which is why he cut it—his hair weighed in at 200 shekels^[b] measured by the royal standard.^[c]