2 Samuel 15:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

2 Samuel 15:9 —

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

(vv. 7-12)

We have here the breaking out of Absalom’s rebellion, which he had long been contriving. It is said to be after forty years, 2 Sam. 15:7. But whence it is to be dated we are not told; not from David’s beginning his reign, for then it would fall in the last year of his life, which is not probable; but either from his first anointing by Samuel seven years before, or rather (I think) from the people’…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

7-9. after forty years--It is generally admitted that an error has here crept into the text, and that instead of “forty,” we should read with the Syriac and Arabic versions, and Josephus, “four years”--that is, after Absalom’s return to Jerusalem, and his beginning to practice the base arts of gaining popularity. my vow, which I have vowed unto the Lord--during his exile in Geshur. The purport of…