And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? [it had been] good for me [to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and (r) if there be [any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.
(r) If I have offended by revenging my sister's dishonour: thus the wicked justify themselves in their evil.