2 Samuel 15:7
After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the Lord.
Note Syriac and some LXX manuscripts; Hebrew forty
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.
At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.
And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto Jehovah, in Hebron.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- An
- A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. 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 {arbâim,} forty, is an error for {arbâ,} 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.
- 2 Samuel 13:38; 1 Samuel 16:1, 13
- let me go
- 2 Samuel 13:24–27
- pay
- 1 Samuel 16:2; Proverbs 21:27; Isaiah 58:4; Matthew 2:8; Matthew 23:14