2 Samuel 19:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

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  • Gen 47:8-9 : 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you? 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • Job 14:14 : 14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.
  • Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are troubled in vain: he heaps up riches, and does not know who shall gather them.
  • 1 Cor 7:29 : 29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short; so that from now on, even those who have wives should be as though they had none,
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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  • 87%

    31And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

    32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he remained at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

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

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    35I am this day eighty years old; and can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

    36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

    37Let your servant, I pray you, turn back again, that I may die in my own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.

    38And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you; and whatever you shall request of me, that I will do for you.

    39And all the people went over the Jordan. And when the king had crossed over, the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

    40Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went with him; and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 2:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6Do therefore according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray head go down to the grave in peace.

    7But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those that eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom your brother.

    8And behold, you have with you Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse on the day I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the Lord, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.

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    19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you also going with us? Return to your place, and stay with the king: for you are a stranger and also an exile.

    20Whereas you came just yesterday, should I this day make you wander with us? seeing I go where I may, return, and take back your brethren: mercy and truth be with you.

    21And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in whatever place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will your servant be.

  • 25And it came to pass, when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?

  • 2And he said to them, I am one hundred and twenty years old today; I can no longer go out and come in: also the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.

  • 27And it came to pass, when David came to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel from Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

  • 69%

    10And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.

    11Yet I am as strong this day as I was the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.

  • 2And now, behold, the king walks before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood until this day.

  • 2And he said, Behold now, I am old, I do not know the day of my death:

  • 10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

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    28For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those that eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry anymore to the king?

    29And the king said to him, Why speak any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land.

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    33To whom David said, If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me:

    34But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father's servant before, so will I now also be your servant: then you may for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

  • 15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to meet the king, to conduct the king over the Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 15:7-8
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    67%

    7And it came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray you, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron.

    8For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall truly bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.

  • 22And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be adversaries unto me? Shall any man be put to death this day in Israel? For do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

  • 38And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do. So Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

  • 4And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.

  • 19And said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, neither remember what your servant did perversely the day my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

  • 28See, I will stay in the plain of the wilderness, until word comes from you to confirm me.

  • 3And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains at Jerusalem: for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

  • 26Then you shall say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.

  • 11And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years he reigned in Hebron, and thirty-three years he reigned in Jerusalem.

  • 3And one said, Please be content, and go with your servants. And he answered, I will go.

  • 13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • 20Therefore hear now, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my plea, I pray you, be accepted before you, that you do not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

  • 8And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant since I have been with you until this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

  • 27Has this thing been done by my lord the king, and you have not shown it to your servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

  • 9He said to me again, Stand, please, upon me, and kill me: for anguish has come upon me, because my life is still in me.

  • 29Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 27And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

  • 18And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?

  • 20And you, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, that you should tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

  • 17And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over the Jordan before the king.

  • 34For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad is not with me? lest perhaps I see the evil that shall come upon my father.