2 Samuel 13:38 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁸So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

2 Samuel 13:38 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 15:8
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.
2 Samuel 14:32
And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 30-39)

Here is, I. The fright that David was put into by a false report brought to Jerusalem that Absalom had slain all the king’s sons, 2 Sam. 13:30. It is common for fame to make bad worse; and the first news of such a thing as this represents it as more dreadful than afterwards it proves. Let us not therefore be afraid of evil tidings, while they want confirmation, but, when we hear the worst, hope th…