After four years, Absalom said to the king,“ Let me go to Hebron to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and fulfill a vow I made to him.

满了四十年，押沙龙对王说：“求你准我往希伯仑去，还我向耶和华所许的愿。

过了四年，押沙龙对王说：“求你准我往希伯仑去，还我向耶和华所许的愿。

过了四年，押沙龙对王说：“求你准我往希伯仑去，还我向耶和华所许的愿。

过了四年，押沙龙对王说：“请让我到希伯仑去还我向耶和华许下的愿吧。

过了四年（按照《马索拉文本》，“四年”作“四十年”；现参照各古译本翻译），押沙龙对王说：“求你准我到希伯仑去，好向耶和华还我所许的愿。

滿了四十年，押沙龍對王說：「求你准我往希伯崙去，還我向耶和華所許的願。

過了四年，押沙龍對王說：「求你准我往希伯崙去，還我向耶和華所許的願。

過了四年，押沙龍對王說：「求你准我往希伯崙去，還我向耶和華所許的願。

過了四年，押沙龍對王說：「請讓我到希伯崙去還我向耶和華許下的願吧。

過了四年（按照《馬索拉文本》，“四年”作“四十年”；現參照各古譯本翻譯），押沙龍對王說：“求你准我到希伯崙去，好向耶和華還我所許的願。

過了四年，押沙龍對王說：『請准我去、在希伯崙還我向永恆主所許的願；

過了四年，押沙龍對王說：「請讓我去希伯崙向耶和華還我所許的願。

越四年、押沙龍謂王曰、我曾許願於耶和華、請允我往希伯崙以酬之、

越四年、押沙龍請於王曰、昔我於耶和華前曾許其願、今欲往希伯崙以酬、王其許我。

越四年、原文作越四十年押沙龍告王曰、我曾在主前許願、我欲往希伯崙酬之、求王許我、

At the end of four years, Absalom said to the king,“ Let me go to Hebron and fulfill a vow I made to the Lord.

After Absalom had lived in Jerusalem for four years, he went and spoke to the king. He said,“ Let me go to Hebron. I want to keep a promise I made to the Lord.

And at the end of four years Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.

When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the LORD.

Now it came about at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to the Lord, in Hebron.

Now it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the king,“ Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the Lord.

And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto Jehovah, in Hebron.

When four years had passed, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I made to the Lord.

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.

After four years Absalom said to the king,“ Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the LORD while I was in Hebron.

At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king,“ Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.

He went to the king and said,“ My sheep shearers are now at work. Would the king and his servants please come to celebrate the occasion with me?”The king replied,“ No, my son. If we all came, we would be too much of a burden on you.” Absalom pressed him, but the king would not come, though he gave Absalom his blessing.“ Well, then,” Absalom said,“ if you can’t come, how about sending my brother Amnon with us?”“ Why Amnon?” the king asked.But Absalom kept on pressing the king until he finally agreed to let all his sons attend, including Amnon. So Absalom prepared a feast fit for a king.

So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.

Now the Lord said to Samuel,“ You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”But Samuel asked,“ How can I do that? If Saul hears about it, he will kill me.”“ Take a heifer with you,” the Lord replied,“ and say that you have come to make a sacrifice to the Lord.

He stayed there in Geshur for three years.

Then he told them,“ Go to Bethlehem and search carefully for the child. And when you find him, come back and tell me so that I can go and worship him, too!”

“ What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.

The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong motives.