2 Samuel 15:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.

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  • 2 Sam 13:37-38 : 37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day. 38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
  • Gen 28:20-21 : 20 Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on, 21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
  • 1 Sam 16:2 : 2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
  • 2 Sam 14:23 : 23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
  • 2 Sam 14:32 : 32 Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.
  • Ps 56:12 : 12 Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.
  • Eccl 5:4 : 4 When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
  • Isa 28:15 : 15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh. 4 Take you heed everyone of his neighbor, and don't you trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders. 5 They will deceive everyone his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Jer 42:20 : 20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:

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  • 2 Sam 15:7
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    7It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
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    9The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 16:19
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    19Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn't I serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence.

  • 2 Sam 15:34
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    34but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

  • Ps 132:2
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    2How he swore to Yahweh, And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

  • 1 Kgs 1:29-30
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    29The king swore, and said, As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

    30most assuredly as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place; most assuredly so will I do this day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:24-26
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    24who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    25Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.

    26Now therefore, God of Israel, Please let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David my father.

  • 1 Kgs 2:4
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    4That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

  • 1 Sam 26:19
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    19Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that I shouldn't cling to Yahweh's inheritance, saying, Go, serve other gods.

  • 2 Sam 14:32
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    32Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let him kill me.

  • 2 Sam 19:36-37
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    36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

    37Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.

  • 2 Sam 15:15
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    15The king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king shall choose.

  • 1 Kgs 1:17
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    17She said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid, [saying], Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.

  • 1 Sam 20:8
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    8Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?

  • 2 Chr 6:15-17
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    15who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him: yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.

    16Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.

    17Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you spoke to your servant David.

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    23So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 15:21
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    21Ittai answered the king, and said, As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be.

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    24Absalom came to the king, and said, See now, your servant has sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants go with your servant.

  • 2 Sam 15:28
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    28Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

  • 2 Sam 19:20
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    20For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

  • 1 Kgs 8:15
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    15He said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

  • 2 Sam 19:7
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    7Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear by Yahweh, if you don't go forth, there will not stay a man with you this night: and that will be worse to you than all the evil that has happened to you from your youth until now.

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  • Ps 132:11
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    11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

  • 1 Kgs 2:8
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    8Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.

  • 1 Chr 17:25-26
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    25For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house: therefore has your servant found [in his heart] to pray before you.

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    18I will pay my vows to Yahweh, Yes, in the presence of all his people,

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    30Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.

  • 2 Sam 7:27
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    27For you, Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

  • 2 Sam 15:26
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    26but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him.

  • 1 Kgs 8:20-21
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    20Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    21There have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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    15Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.

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    21The king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

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    25Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm you it forever, and do as you have spoken.

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    6If your father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

  • 1 Kgs 2:42-43
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    42The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Didn't I adjure you by Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and walk abroad any where, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I have heard is good.

    43Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have charged you with?

  • 1 Sam 24:21
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    21Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • 1 Chr 17:23
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    23Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.