2 Samuel 15:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ And it came to be at the end of forty years that Aḇshalom said to the sovereign, “Please, let me go to Ḥeḇron and pay the vow which I vowed to יהוה.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And after [four] years, Absalom said to the king, I pray you, let me go to Hebron [his birthplace] and pay my vow to the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto Jehovah, in Hebron.

Common English Bible

⁷ At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron so I can fulfill a promise I made to the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Then, after forty years, Absalom said to king David: "I should go and pay my vows, which I have vowed to the Lord at Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:7 Cross References

Isaiah 58:4

“Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 2:8

And having sent them to Bĕyth Leḥem, he said, “Go and search diligently for the Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, so that I too might go and do reverence to Him.”

Proverbs 21:27

The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!

2 Samuel 13:38

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

1 Samuel 16:13

And Shemu’ĕl took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of יהוה came upon Dawiḏ from that day and onwards. And Shemu’ĕl arose and went to Ramah.

2 Samuel 3:2

And sons were born to Dawiḏ in Ḥeḇron. And his first-born was Amnon by Aḥino‛am the Yizre‛ĕlitess;

2 Samuel 3:3

and his second, Kil’aḇ, by Aḇiḡayil the widow of Naḇal the Karmelite; and the third, Aḇshalom son of Ma‛aḵah, the daughter of Talmai, sovereign of Geshur;