2 Samuël 13:38

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Toen hij er drie jaren geweest was

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Toen nu Absalom gevlucht was, en naar Gesur getrokken, was hij aldaar drie jaren.

Staten Vertaling
Alzo vluchtte Absalom, en toog naar Gesur; en hij was aldaar drie jaren.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 2974-2977, bc 1030-1027, An, Ex, Is, 461-464, Geshur. This was not the Geshur lying between Philistia and Egypt - Joshua 13:13. 1 Samuel 27:8, but another in Syria; probably the same as that beyond Jordan, whose inhabitants are joined with those of Maachathi, Deuteronomy 3:14. Joshua 12:5. 2 Samuel 14:23, 2 Samuel 14:32, 2 Samuel 15:8

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:2 - Geshuri 2 Samuel 3:3 - Talmai 2 Samuel 13:34 - Absalom fled 2 Samuel 14:13 - in that the king 2 Samuel 15:7 - forty years 1 Chronicles 2:23 - Geshur 1 Chronicles 3:2 - Absalom

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Absalom fled,.... This is the third time it is mentioned, and the reason of it here Abarbinel thinks is, that when he first fled to his grandfather, he used to stand openly in the court of his palace, and go with him wherever he went from place to place; but when he understood that his father mourned so for the death of Amnon, he was afraid he would send some person to lay hold on him, and take vengeance on him; and therefore he would go no more with the king from place to place, but went and abode in Geshur always, which was a fortified city, as it follows:

and went to Geshur, and was there three years: and never went out of it, until he was fetched by Joab, as 2 Samuel 14:23 relates; nor is there anything in 2 Samuel 13:37 disturbed and mutilated, as Spinosa r intimates, but the whole is very expressive and emphatic.

r Tractat. Theolog. Politic. c. 9. p. 176.