2 Samuel 15:8 “For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying:…”

2 Samuel 15:8

For 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.’ ”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.

World English Bible

For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’”

American Standard Version

For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For thy seruant vowed a vowe when I remayned at Geshur, in Aram, saying, If the Lord shall bring me againe in deede to Ierusalem, I will serue the Lord.

Darby Translation

For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode in Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

for a vow hath thy servant vowed in my dwelling in Geshur, in Aram, saying, If Jehovah doth certainly bring me back to Jerusalem, then I have served Jehovah.'

Bible in Basic English

For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.

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Cross references

“thy servant”

1 Samuel 1:11 1 Samuel 16:2 Psalm 56:12 Ecclesiastes 5:4 Genesis 28:20 Genesis 28:21

1 Samuel 1:11 · BSB

And she made a vow, saying, “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 I will dedicate him to the LORD all…

1 Samuel 16:2 · BSB

“How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

Psalm 56:12 · BSB

Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

Ecclesiastes 5:4 · BSB

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Genesis 28:20 · BSB

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,

Genesis 28:21 · BSB

so that I may return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God.

“Geshur”

2 Samuel 14:23 2 Samuel 14:32 2 Samuel 13:37 2 Samuel 13:38

2 Samuel 14:23 · BSB

So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

2 Samuel 14:32 · BSB

“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 if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, a…

2 Samuel 13:37 · BSB

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

2 Samuel 13:38 · BSB

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

“I will serve”

Jeremiah 9:3–5 Joshua 24:15 Isaiah 28:15 Jeremiah 42:20

Jeremiah 9:3–5 · BSB

“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.

Joshua 24:15 · BSB

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you a…

Isaiah 28:15 · BSB

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hidi…

Jeremiah 42:20 · BSB

For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7After 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.

9“Go in peace,” said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.

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