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2 Samuel 15:7-9
International Standard Version
2 Samuel 15:7-9
International Standard Version
7 And so it was that forty[a] years after Israel had demanded a king,[b] Absalom asked the king, “Please let me go to Hebron so I can pay my vow that I made to the Lord, 8 because when I was living at Geshur in Aram, your servant made this solemn promise:[c] ‘If the Lord ever brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’”
9 The king replied to him, “Go in peace!” So Absalom[d] got up and left for Hebron.
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- 2 Samuel 15:7 So MT and LXX; Syr Peshitta and Lucian recension of LXX read four
- 2 Samuel 15:7 The Heb. lacks after Israel had demanded a king; i.e. about ten years before David began his reign. Or forty years after David’s anointing at Bethlehem; cf. 1Sam 16:13
- 2 Samuel 15:8 Lit. servant vowed a vow
- 2 Samuel 15:9 Lit. he
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