2 Samuel 13:38
After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.
BSB
ASV
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
KJV
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD 2.5 (500)
This is the first introduction of divine punishment; the first but not the only one. A long series of great tribulations followed, and an almost unending succession of misfortunes scarcely left his house. Tamar was corrupted by the madness of Amnon, and Amnon was slain …
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2 Samuel 15:8For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”
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Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
And she made a vow, pleading, “O LORD of Hosts, if only You will look upon the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, not forgetting Your maidservant but giving her a son, then…
“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
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2 Samuel 14:32“Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me…
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Therefore deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the LORD. If there is iniquity in me, then kill me yourself; why should you bring me…
Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in…
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
