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This is how Absalom treated every Israelite who came to the king seeking justice. This is how Absalom stole the hearts of the Israelites.

At the end of four[a] years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron so I can fulfill a promise I made to the Lord. Your servant made this promise when I lived in Geshur, in Aram. I promised that if the Lord would bring me back to Jerusalem, then I would worship the Lord in Hebron.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:7 LXX, Syr, Vulg, Josephus; MT forty
  2. 2 Samuel 15:8 LXX; MT lacks in Hebron.

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