Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation I am already eighty years old, and nothing gives me pleasure any more. I can't taste what I eat and drink, and I can't hear the voices of singers. I would only be a burden to Your Majesty. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king? can I discern Job 6:30 And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth. Job 12:11 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste? Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil. 1 Peter 2:3 If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. taste Ecclesiastes 12:1-5 Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the time of affliction come, and the years draw nigh of which thou shalt say: They please me not: . . . I hear Ezra 2:65 Besides their menservants, and womenservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women two hundred. Nehemiah 7:67 Beside their menservants and womenservants, who were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and among them singing men, and singing women, two hundred forty-five. Exodus 2:8 She answered: Go. The maid went and called her mother. Exodus 12:4 But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. a burden 2 Samuel 13:25 And the king said to Absalom: Nay, my son, do not ask that we should all come, and be chargeable to thee. And when he pressed him, and he would not go, he blessed him. 2 Samuel 15:33 And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a burden to me: Context David's Kindness to Barzillai…34And Berzellai 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 this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?36I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.… Cross References 2 Samuel 15:33 And David said to him: If thou come with me, thou wilt be a burden to me: 2 Samuel 19:36 I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense. Psalm 90:10 The days of our years in them are threescore and ten years. But if in the strong they be fourscore years: and what is more of them is labour and sorrow. For mildness is come upon us: and we shall be corrected. Ecclesiastes 2:8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine: Ecclesiastes 12:4 And they shall shut the doors in the street, when the grinder's voice shall be low, and they shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall grow deaf. Isaiah 5:11 Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine. Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands. Jump to Previous Bad Burden Discern Drink Eat Eighty Evil Fourscore Good Hear Servant Singing Singing-Men Taste Voice Wherefore WomenJump to Next Bad Burden Discern Drink Eat Eighty Evil Fourscore Good Hear Servant Singing Singing-Men Taste Voice Wherefore WomenLinks 2 Samuel 19:35 NIV2 Samuel 19:35 NLT 2 Samuel 19:35 ESV 2 Samuel 19:35 NASB 2 Samuel 19:35 Bible Apps 2 Samuel 19:35 Biblia Paralela 2 Samuel 19:35 Chinese Bible 2 Samuel 19:35 French Bible 2 Samuel 19:35 German Bible Alphabetical: added am an and anymore bad be between burden Can difference distinguish drink drinks eat eats eighty good he hear I is king lord men my not now of old Or servant should singers singing still taste tell the then to voice voices what Why women years your OT History: 2 Samuel 19:35 I am this day eighty years old: (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |
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