2 Samuel 15:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁶ Thus Absalom did to every Israelite who came to the king for judgement; so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel.

⁷ At the end of four^[a] years Absalom said to the king, ‘Please let me go to Hebron and pay the vow that I have made to the Lord. ⁸ For your servant made a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram: If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will worship the Lord in Hebron.’^[b]