2 Samuel 19:34-37

David Pardons His Enemies

34 But Barzillai said to the king, u "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 I am this day v eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be w an added burden to my lord the king? 36 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? 37 Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant x Chimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you."

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 47:8
    And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 90:10
    The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
  3. Cross References
    2 Samuel 15:33
    David said to him, "If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 2:7
    But deal loyally with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
    Jeremiah 41:17
    And they went and stayed at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt
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