2 Samuel 19
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2 Samuel 19:34-37

34But Barzillai said to the king, "How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

35I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

36Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near 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 whatever seems good to you."

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