Sinai2 Samuel 19:35
American Standard Version
I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
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2 Samuel 19:35 in other translations
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?
2 Samuel 19:35 in context
- 33And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will sustain thee with me in Jerusalem.
- 34And Barzillai said unto the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
- 35I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
- 36Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
- 37Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.