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And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee,
A. M. 2983. B.C. 1021. An. Ex. Is. 470. forty years. As David reigned in the whole only forty years, this reading is evidently corrupt, though supported by the commonly printed Vulgate, LXX., and Chaldee. But the Syriac, Arabic, Josephus, Theodoret, the Sixtine edition of the Vulgate, and several MSS. of the same version, read four years; and it is highly probable that {arbâim,} forty, is an error for {arbâ,} four, though not supported by any Hebrew MS. yet discovered. Two of those collated by Dr. Kennicott, however, have {yom,} "day," instead of {shanah,} "year," i.e., forty days instead of forty years; but this is not sufficient to outweigh the other authorities: 1 Samuel 16:1 | 1 Samuel 16:13 | 2 Samuel 13:38
Let me go: Exodus 32:10 | Deuteronomy 9:14 | Song of Songs 7:5 | Isaiah 45:11 | Isaiah 64:7 | Luke 24:28 | Luke 24:29
pay: Genesis 23:16 | Deuteronomy 7:3 | Deuteronomy 7:4
