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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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Deception Cloaked in Piety
Commentators suggest Absalom's vow was likely a calculated lie. He used the language of religious devotion—promising to 'serve Jehovah'—not out of sincere faith, but as a manipulative tactic to get his father's permission to go to Hebron, the planned center of his rebellion.
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2 Samuel
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Reformed Baptist
For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria , &c.] When at his grandfather's court there:
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Presbyterian
See how willing tender parents are to believe the best concerning their children. But how easy and how wicked it is for children to take advantage …
