2 Samuel 15:6-8

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⁶This is how Absalom dealt with everyone in Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

⁷And after ^[a]four years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the Lord at ^[b]Hebron [my birthplace]. ⁸For your servant made a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram (Syria), ‘If the Lord will in fact bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord [by offering a sacrifice of thanksgiving].’”

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Footnotes

2 Samuel 15:7 The Hebrew text reads “forty years.” The LXX, Syriac, and writings of Josephus read “four years.” Absalom would be about thirty years old at this time.
2 Samuel 15:7 David had moved the capital from Hebron to Jerusalem, but Hebron was still an important city.