2 Samuel 13:38
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New International Version (©2011)
After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He stayed there in Geshur for three years.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So Absalom fled and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, and was there three years.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur where he stayed three years.

International Standard Version (©2012)
After fleeing to Geshur, Absalom remained there for three years.

NET Bible (©2006)
After Absalom fled and went to Geshur, he remained there for three years.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Absalom, having fled to Geshur, stayed there three years.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Now Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

English Revised Version
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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

13:30-39 Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death, as of his sin; such false friends do they prove, who counsel us to do wickedly. Instead of loathing Absalom as a murderer, David, after a time, longed to go forth to him. This was David's infirmity: God saw something in his heart that made a difference, else we should have thought that he, as much as Eli, honoured his sons more than God.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So Absalom fled,.... This is the third time it is mentioned, and the reason of it here Abarbinel thinks is, that when he first fled to his grandfather, he used to stand openly in the court of his palace, and go with him wherever he went from place to place; but when he understood that his father mourned so for the death of Amnon, he was afraid he would send some person to lay hold on him, and take vengeance on him; and therefore he would go no more with the king from place to place, but went and abode in Geshur always, which was a fortified city, as it follows:

and went to Geshur, and was there three years: and never went out of it, until he was fetched by Joab, as 2 Samuel 14:23 relates; nor is there anything in 2 Samuel 13:37 disturbed and mutilated, as Spinosa (r) intimates, but the whole is very expressive and emphatic.

(r) Tractat. Theolog. Politic. c. 9. p. 176.

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Absalom Flees to Geshur
…37But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day. 38So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years. 39And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

2 Samuel 13:34 Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. Now the man standing watch looked up and saw many people on the road west of him, coming down the side of the hill. The watchman went and told the king, "I see men in the direction of Horonaim, on the side of the hill."
2 Samuel 14:13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, for the king has not brought back his banished son?
2 Samuel 14:23 Then Joab went to Geshur and brought Absalom back to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 15:8 While your servant was living at Geshur in Aram, I made this vow: 'If the LORD takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.'"