2 Samuel 19:35-37

Christian Standard Bible

³⁵ I’m now eighty years old.^(A) Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?^{(B) 36} Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward? ³⁷ Please let your servant return so that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham;^(C) let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him what seems good to you.”^[a]