2 Samuel 15:9

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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חֶבְרֽוֹנָה

Chebrôwn

H2275

“Hebron · toward”

Noun, Proper + Suffix, Demonstrative

Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 13:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2267

TWOT: 598i

Hebron = "association" - a city in south Judah approx 20 south of Jerusalem and approx 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Beersheba and near where Abraham built an altar (noun proper locative) - the 3rd son of Kohath and grandson of Levi (noun proper masculine) - a descendant of Caleb (noun proper masculine)

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
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
3 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

וַיֹּֽאמֶר Qal · Sequential Imperfect
לֵ֣ךְ Qal · Imperative
וַיָּ֖קָם Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

לֵ֣ךְ to walk H3212 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 16 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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.

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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

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Hebrew 2 Samuel 15:9 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיֹּֽאמֶר ל֥וֹ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ לֵ֣ךְ בְּשָׁל֑וֹם וַיָּ֖קָם וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ חֶבְרֽוֹנָה

The king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 15:9 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἶπον αὐτός ὁ βασιλεύς βαδίζω εἰς εἰρήνη καί ἀναἵστημι πορεύομαι εἰς χεβρων

And the king said to him, Go in peace. And he arose and went to Chebron.

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)

וַאֲמַר לֵיהּ מַלְכָּא אֱזֵיל בִּשְׁלָם וְקָם וַאֲזַל לְחֶבְרוֹן:

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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 15:9 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 15:9 And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

Ver. 9. Go in peace.] David was so blinded with fond affection, that he could see nothing amiss in Absalom; though otherwise he were sagacious enough, yea, suspicious without cause, as of good Mephibosheth. The Dutch have a proverb, Where God intendeth to destroy any man, he first putteth out his eyes.

And went to Hebron.] The fittest place for his purpose, because ancient and famous, the place of his birth, and where he had many friends. See Jdg 9:1. {See Trapp on "Jdg 9:1"}

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.

John Gill's Exposition

And the king said unto him, go in peace,.... He gave him leave to go, and wished happiness and prosperity might attend him:

so he arose and went to Hebron; with a company of men, whose number is after mentioned.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

This place he chose, as being an eminent city, and next to Jerusalem, the chief of the tribe of Judah, and the place of his birth, and the place where his father began his kingdom, which he took for a good omen, and where it is probable that he had secured many friends, and which was at some convenient distance from Jerusalem, that his father could not suddenly reach him.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

9. Went to Hebron — Where he was born, and where his father had first been anointed king.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hebron - This place he chose as being an eminent city, and next to Jerusalem, the chief of the tribe of Judah, and the place where his father began his kingdom, which he took for a good omen. And where it is probable he had secured many friends. It was also at a convenient distance from Jerusalem.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

The king consented, and Absalom went to Hebron. Absalom had selected this city, probably assigning as the reason that he was born there, but really because his father David had been made king there, and also possibly because there may have been many persons there who had been displeased by the removal of the court to Jerusalem.

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

So Absalom arose

"So Absalom left"

throughout all the tribes of Israel

Here the places where the tribes of Israel lived are referred to as the tribes themselves. AT: "throughout the land of the tribes of Israel" (See: Metonymy)

the sound of the trumpet

"a trumpet being blown"

translationWords

peace

Hebron

send

tribe

trumpet

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 (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Chebrôwn (“Hebron”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “Hebron” (Chebrôwn) shape what this verse is saying?
“to walk” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The verb «וַיֹּֽאמֶר» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 8 Hebrew ↔ 13 Greek words.
“to walk” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.