2 Samuel 19:35

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I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

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  • 2 Sam 15:33 : 33 David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:
  • Ezra 2:65 : 65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.
  • Ps 90:10 : 10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
  • Eccl 2:8 : 8 I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.
  • Eccl 12:1-5 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain; 3 In the day when the keepers of the house are shaking for fear, and the strong men are bent down, and the women who were crushing the grain are at rest because their number is small, and those looking out of the windows are unable to see; 4 When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low; 5 And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
  • Isa 5:11-12 : 11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine! 12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for men of full growth, even for those whose senses are trained by use to see what is good and what is evil.
  • 1 Pet 2:3 : 3 If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:
  • Neh 7:67 : 67 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.
  • Job 6:30 : 30 Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
  • Job 12:11 : 11 Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
  • Exod 2:8 : 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother.
  • Exod 12:4 : 4 And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.
  • 2 Sam 13:25 : 25 And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

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  • 2 Sam 19:31-34
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    31And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan.

    32Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

    33And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.

    34And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king?

  • 2 Sam 19:36-39
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    36Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?

    37Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.

    38And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.

    39Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.

  • Josh 14:10-11
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    10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

    11And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.

  • 2 Sam 19:27-29
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    27He has given you a false account of me: but my lord the king is like the angel of God: do then whatever seems good to you.

    28For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

    29And the king said, Say nothing more about these things. I say, Let there be a division of the land between Ziba and you.

  • 1 Sam 12:2
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    2And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

  • Gen 27:2
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    2And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:

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    15Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed so that he was not able to see.

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    2Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.

  • Gen 31:38
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    38These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.

  • Job 30:2
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    2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

  • 2 Sam 15:20
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    20It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.

  • 1 Kgs 1:1
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    17And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.

    18And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

    19Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

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    1And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine.

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    19And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.

  • 1 Chr 17:18
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    18What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant.

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