¹⁴ I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.

¹¹ And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord.

¹⁵ And the flesh of the praise-offering is to be taken as food on the day when it is offered; no part of it may be kept till the morning.

¹⁶ But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:

⁶ And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

⁷ There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

⁷ Now at the end of four years, Absalom said to the king, Let me go to Hebron and give effect to the oath which I made to the Lord:

⁸ For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.

⁹ And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

⁹ And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

¹⁰ And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

¹ Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

²⁷ The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!

²⁸ So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.