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2 Samuel 19:35-37
International Standard Version
2 Samuel 19:35-37
International Standard Version
35 I’m now 80 years old! I can hardly tell the difference between what tastes[a] good or bad! I can’t tell what I eat or drink! I can’t hear the voice of men and women when they sing! So why should your servant be an added burden to your majesty the king? 36 Your servant will cross the Jordan River[b] with the king for a short distance, but why should the king offer me this reward? 37 Please let your servant return so I can die in my own home town near the grave of my father and mother. Meanwhile, here is your servant Chimham![c] Let him accompany your majesty the king. Please do for him whatever seems best to you.”
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- 2 Samuel 19:35 The Heb. lacks what tastes
- 2 Samuel 19:36 The Heb. lacks River
- 2 Samuel 19:37 I.e., a son of Barzillai to whom David later gave a land grant near Bethlehem and on which Chimham built an inn that remained at least until the exile; cf. Jer 41:17
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