2 Samuel 13:38 - Easy To Read Version

³⁸ After Absalom had run away to Geshur, he stayed there for three years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ So Absalom fled to Geshur and was there three years.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Common English Bible

³⁸ But Absalom, after fleeing to Geshur, stayed there for three years.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Now after he had fled and had arrived in Geshur, Absalom was in that place for three years. And king David ceased to pursue Absalom, because he had been consoled over the passing of Amnon.

2 Samuel 13:38 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:34

Absalom ran away.

2 Samuel 14:13

Then the woman said, “Why have you planned these things against the people of God? Yes, when you say these things, you show you are guilty. Why? Because you have not brought back the son that you forced to leave home.

2 Samuel 14:23

Then Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14:32

Absalom said to Joab, “I sent a message to you. I asked you to come here. I wanted to send you to the king. I wanted you to ask him why he asked me to come home from Geshur. {I can’t see him, so} it would have been better for me to stay in Geshur. Now let me see the king. If I have sinned, then he can kill me!”

2 Samuel 15:8

I made that promise while I was still living in Geshur, Aram. I said, ‘If the Lord brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’”

2 Samuel 3:3

The second son was Kileab. Kileab’s mother was Abigail, the widow [15] of Nabal from Carmel. The third son was Absalom. Absalom’s mother was Maacah daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur.