Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “absalom” →
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother.
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD , and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
