2 Samuel 13:38
New International Version
After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

New Living Translation
He stayed there in Geshur for three years.

English Standard Version
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

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

King James Bible
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

New King James Version
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

New American Standard Bible
So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there for three years.

NASB 1995
So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there three years.

NASB 1977
So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there three years.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there three years.

Amplified Bible
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there for three years.

Christian Standard Bible
After Absalom had fled to Geshur and had been there three years,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur where he stayed three years.

American Standard Version
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Abishlum fled and he went to Geshur and he was there three years

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So Abessalom fled, and departed to Gedsur, and was there three years.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Absalom after he was fled, and come into Gessur, was there three years.

English Revised Version
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Absalom, having fled to Geshur, stayed there three years.

International Standard Version
After fleeing to Geshur, Absalom remained there for three years.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Literal Standard Version
And Absalom has fled, and goes to Geshur, and is there [for] three years;

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

New American Bible
and stayed in Geshur for three years.

NET Bible
After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he remained there for three years.

New Revised Standard Version
Absalom, having fled to Geshur, stayed there three years.

New Heart English Bible
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

World English Bible
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

Young's Literal Translation
And Absalom hath fled, and goeth to Geshur, and is there three years;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Absalom Flees to Geshur
37Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day. 38After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years. 39And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 13:34
Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, "I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill."

2 Samuel 14:13
The woman asked, "Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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.'"


Treasury of Scripture

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

A.

Joshua 13:13
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

1 Samuel 27:8
And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

Joshua 12:5
And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

2 Samuel 14:23,32
So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem…

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2 Samuel 13
1. Amnon loving Tamar, by Jonadab's counsel feigning himself sick, ravishes her.
15. He hates her, and shamefully turns her away
19. Absalom entertains her, and conceals his purpose
23. At a sheep-shearing among all the king's sons, he kills Amnon
31. David grieving at the news, is comforted by Jonadab
37. Absalom flies to Talmai at Geshur














(38) Was there three years.--This is the third time the flight of Absalom has been mentioned; but, after the custom of Scripture narrative, each repetition has been for the purpose of introducing some additional fact. In 2Samuel 13:34 the simple fact of his flight is stated; in 2Samuel 13:37 it is added that he went to his grandfather, and here that he remained with him three years.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
After Absalom
וְאַבְשָׁל֥וֹם (wə·’aḇ·šā·lō·wm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 53: Absalom -- 'my father is peace', two Israelites

had fled
בָּרַ֖ח (bā·raḥ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1272: To bolt, to flee suddenly

and gone
וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ (way·yê·leḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

to Geshur,
גְּשׁ֑וּר (gə·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1650: Geshur -- a territory East of the upper Jordan, also inhabitants of Geshur

he stayed
וַיְהִי־ (way·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

there
שָׁ֖ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

three
שָׁלֹ֥שׁ (šā·lōš)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

years.
שָׁנִֽים׃ (šā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year


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