7
When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the Lord.
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For your servant made a vow when I lived in Geshur of Aram, saying: If the Lord really brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron."
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"Go in peace," the king said to him. So he went to Hebron.
10
Then Absalom sent messengers throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: "When you hear the sound of the ram's horn, you are to say, 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!' "
11
Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom. They had been invited and were going innocently, for they knew nothing about the whole matter.