Sinai2 Samuel 19:35
World English Bible
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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2 Samuel 19:35 in other translations
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?
2 Samuel 19:35 in context
- 33The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
- 34Barzillai 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?
- 35I 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?
- 36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
- 37Please 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.”