2 Samuel 14:31-33

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³¹ Then Joab rose and went to Absalom at his house, and said to him, “Why have your servants set my field on fire?” ³² Absalom answered Joab, “Look, I sent word to you: Come here, that I may send you to the king with the question, ‘Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.’ Now let me go into the king’s presence; if there is guilt in me, let him kill me!” ³³ Then Joab went to the king and told him; and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and prostrated himself with his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.