Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.
Forty years
Let me go
Bible References
Forty years
2 Samuel 13:38
But Absalom had fled and went [to] Geshur, and he [was] there three years.
1 Samuel 16:1
Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "{How long} will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn [with] oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."
Let me go
2 Samuel 13:24
Then Absalom went to the king and said, "Look, here [are] your servant's shearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant.
Pay
1 Samuel 16:2
But Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me." Yahweh said, "You must take a heifer from the herd {with you}, and you must say, 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.'
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!
Isaiah 58:4
Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.
Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Bethlehem [and] said, "Go, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found [him], report to me so that I also may come [and] worship him."