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2 Samuel 15:5-7
Contemporary English Version
2 Samuel 15:5-7
Contemporary English Version
5 Whenever anyone came to Absalom and started bowing down, he would reach out and hug and kiss them. 6 That's how he treated everyone from Israel who brought a complaint to the king. Soon everyone in Israel liked Absalom better than they liked David.
7 Four years[a] later, Absalom said to David, “Please, let me go to Hebron. I have to keep a promise that I made to the Lord,
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- 15.7 Four years: The Hebrew text has “Forty years.”
2 Samuel 15:5-7
New International Version
2 Samuel 15:5-7
New International Version
5 Also, whenever anyone approached him to bow down before him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him and kiss him. 6 Absalom behaved in this way toward all the Israelites who came to the king asking for justice, and so he stole the hearts(A) of the people of Israel.
7 At the end of four[a] years, Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 15:7 Some Septuagint manuscripts, Syriac and Josephus; Hebrew forty
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