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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. 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] The king said to him, ‘Go in peace.’ So he got up, and went to Hebron.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:7 Gk Syr: Heb forty
  2. 2 Samuel 15:8 Gk Mss: Heb lacks in Hebron

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