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After four years,[a] Absalom said to the king, “Let me go to Hebron to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and fulfill a vow I made to him. For while your servant was at Geshur in Aram, I promised to sacrifice to the Lord in Hebron[b] if he would bring me back to Jerusalem.”

“All right,” the king told him. “Go and fulfill your vow.”

So Absalom went to Hebron.

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Footnotes

  1. 15:7 As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads forty years.
  2. 15:8 As in some Greek manuscripts; Hebrew lacks in Hebron.

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