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It happened at the end of four[a] years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron, for your servant made a vow while I was staying in Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If Yahweh will indeed let me return[b] to Jerusalem, then I will worship Yahweh.’” Then the king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he got up and went to Hebron. 10 Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout ‘Absalom has become king in Hebron!’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:7 So LXX, followed by Syriac and Vulgate; MT has “forty”
  2. 2 Samuel 15:8 Literally (following Qere) “If returning Yahweh will return me”