OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 34

2 Samuel 19:34

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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?

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2 Samuel 19:31–37

31

Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king to conduct him over the Jordan.

32

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.”

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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?

36

Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

37

Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”

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