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2 Samuel 19:33

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The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”

Context

30Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”
31Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan) with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
33The king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.”
34Barzillai said to the king, “How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
35I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

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