In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; (A)so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.

Now it came about at the end of [a]forty years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to the Lord, in (B)Hebron. For your servant (C)vowed a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘(D)If the Lord shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:7 Some ancient versions render four