2 Samuel 19:32
Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
33And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.
Genesis 25:7And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.
1 Samuel 25:2Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
2 Kings 15:20And Manahem laid a tax upon Israel, on all that were mighty and rich, to give the king of the Assyrians, each man fifty sides of silver: so the king of the Assyrians turned back, and did not stay in the land.
Psalms 90:3Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:32-40
Mephibosheth Meets David. ( b. c. 1023.) 31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan. 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem. 34 And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the… Read the whole commentary →