2 Samuel 15:7
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| Overview - 2 Samuel 15 | |
| 1 | Absalom, by fair speeches and courtesies, steals the hearts of Israel. |
| 7 | Under pretence of a vow, he obtains leave to go to Hebron. |
| 10 | He makes there a great conspiracy. |
| 13 | David upon the news flees from Jerusalem. |
| 19 | Ittai will not leave him. |
| 24 | Zadok and Abiathar are sent back with the ark. |
| 30 | David and his company go up mount Olivet weeping. |
| 31 | He curses Ahithophel's counsel. |
| 32 | Hushai is sent back with instructions. |
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2 Samuel 15:7 (King James Version)
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.
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- M. 2983. B.C. 1021. An. Ex. Is. 470. forty years.
- As David reigned in the whole only forty years, this reading is evidently corrupt, though supported by the commonly printed Vulgate, LXX
- , and Chaldee. But the Syriac, Arabic, Josephus, Theodoret, the Sixtine edition of the Vulgate, and several MSS. of the same version, read four years; and it is highly probable that {arbim,} forty, is an error for {arb,} four, though not supported by any Hebrew MS
- yet discovered. Two of those collated by Dr. Kennicott, however, have {yom,} "day," instead of {shanah,} "year," i
- e., forty days instead of forty years; but this is not sufficient to outweigh the other authorities.
- 13:38 1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:13
- let me go
- 13:24-27
- pay
- 1 Samuel 16:2 ; Proverbs 21:27 ; Isaiah 58:4 ; Matthew 2:8 ; 23:14