2 Samuel 19:36

I am this day eighty years old: can I then distinguish between good and evil? Can thy servant taste any longer what I eat or drink? can I any longer hear the voice of singing men or singing women? and wherefore shall thy servant any longer be a burden to my lord the king?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

In Context

35And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

37Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why does the king return me this recompense?

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Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1And remember thy Creator 1 In the days of thy youth, 1 Before the days of evil come, 1 And the years overtake thee in which thou shalt say, 1 I have no pleasure in them. 1

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 →

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