2 Samuel 14:23

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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גְּשׁ֑וּרָה

Gᵉshûwr

H1650

“Geshur · toward”

Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative

Appears 9× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Joshua 13:13

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root (meaning to join)

TWOT: None

Geshur or Geshurites = "proud beholder" - a people - a land in north Transjordania

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

8: words
8: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גְּשׁ֑וּרָה Geshur H1650 — appearing just 9 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גְּשׁ֑וּרָה Geshur H1650 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns
1 particle

Verb forms

וַיָּ֥קָם Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיָּבֵ֥א Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 14:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
2 Samuel 13:37–38 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew 2 Samuel 14:23 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּ֥קָם יוֹאָ֖ב וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּרָה וַיָּבֵ֥א אֶת אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם

So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

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Greek LXX 2 Samuel 14:23 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀναἵστημι ιωαβ καί πορεύομαι εἰς γεδσουρ καί ἄγω ὁ αβεσσαλωμ εἰς ἰερουσαλήμ

And Joab arose, and went to Gedsur, and brought Abessalom to Jerusalem.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְקָם יוֹאָב וַאֲזַל לִגְשׁוּר וְאַיְתֵי יַת אַבְשָׁלוֹם לִירוּשְׁלֵם:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Samuel 14:23 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Sa 14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

Ver. 23. And brought Absalom to Jerusalem.] Where, though he escaped the lash of the law, yet not the furies of his own conscience - as little as did Cain after his fratricide, or Orestes and Nero after their matricide - unless he were master of his conscience, and had muzzled it. Joab, by his Tekoitess, had sought to salve the business - which Papinian, the great lawyer, would not be drawn to do for Caracalla (who had slain his brother Geta) though he died for it - and now he had brought him to Jerusalem, who will soon show himseff to be flagellum Reip, flabellum seditionis, a desperate incendiary, a very viper.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Sa 14:23. So Joab went, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem — “Well pleased, we may be assured, to be at once the messenger of his prince’s mercy to the heir apparent of his crown, and the instrument of their reconciliation: which could not fail to secure him a present fund of favour with the father, and an equal fund in reversion with the son.” — Delaney. St. Ambrose mentions this as an instance of the wonderful affection which parents have to their children, though degenerate and wicked; by which we may raise our thoughts to form some, although a very inadequate idea, of the inconceivable love of our heavenly Father toward the human race, his offspring, though fallen and depraved.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

14:23 Geshur: See 13:37-38.

John Gill's Exposition

So Joab arose and went to Geshur,.... Where Absalom was with his grandfather, the king of the place; see Sa2 13:37,

and brought Absalom to Jerusalem; from thence, which, according to Bunting (t), was the distance of eighty eight miles from it.

(t) Travels, &c. p 146, 148.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

but he may not see my face ... the king's face

Here the word "face" refers to the king himself. AT: "but he may not see me ... the king" (See: Synecdoche)

translationWords

Geshur

Jerusalem

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Gᵉshûwr (“Geshur”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Geshur” (Gᵉshûwr) shape what this verse is saying?
How does Joshua 13:13, which shares the word «Geshur», read alongside this verse?
«וַיָּ֥קָם» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Joseph Benson's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.