SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:8
Porque tu siervo hizo voto cuando estaba en Gesur en Siria, diciendo: Si el SEÑOR me volviere a Jerusalén, yo serviré al SEÑOR.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:8
Verse 8. While I abode at Geshur in Syria] Geshur, the country of Talmai, was certainly not in Syria, but lay on the south of Canaan, in or near Edom, as is evident from Judg. i. 10; 1 Sam. xxvii. 8; chap. xiii. 37. Hence it is probable that µra Aram, Syria, is a mistake for µda Edom; d daleth and r resh being easily interchangeable. Edom is the reading both of the Syriac and Arabic.
I will serve the Lord.] Here he pretended to be a strict follower of Jehovah, even while he was in a heathen country; and now he desires liberty to go and perform a vow at Hebron, which he pretends to have made while he was resident at Geshur. And all this was the more perfectly to organize his system of rebellion against his venerable father.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria , etc.] When at his grandfather’s court there: saying, if the Lord will bring me again indeed to Jerusalem ; which he might be sincerely desirous of: then I will serve the Lord ; but it is a question whether he ever made a vow to this purpose, or concerned himself about serving the Lord; but it rather may be, this was a lie of his, now framed in order to get leave of the king to go to Hebron.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-12 - See how willing tender parents are to believe the best concerning their children. But how easy and how wicked is it, for children to tak advantage of good parents, and to deceive them with the show of religion! The principal men of Jerusalem joined Absalom's feast upo his sacrifice. Pious persons are glad to see others appear religious and this gives occasion for deceptions. The policy of wicked men, an the subtlety of Satan, are exerted to draw good persons to countenanc base designs.
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 נדר 5088 נדר 5087 עבדך 5650 בשׁבתי 3427 בגשׁור 1650 בארם 758 לאמר 559 אם 518 ישׁיב 7725 ישׁיבני 7725 יהוה 3068 ירושׁלם 3389 ועבדתי 5647 את 853 יהוה׃ 3068
