Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 19:32 in context
2 Samuel 19:29–35
29
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”
30
Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
31
Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king to conduct him over the Jordan.
32
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Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
33
The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
34
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?
35
I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
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