32 Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent word to you, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to ask, “Why have I come from (A)Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still.” Now therefore let me go into the presence of the king, (B)and if there is guilt in me, let him put me to death.’”

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For your servant (A)vowed a vow (B)while I lived at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord will indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will offer worship to[a] the Lord.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 15:8 Or will serve

Now David (A)and his men went up and made raids against (B)the Geshurites, (C)the Girzites, and (D)the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, (E)as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.

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