Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 19:35

2 Samuel chapter 19 · verse 35 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Context

v.34And Barzillai said unto the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

v.35This passage

v.36Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 6:30

    Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

  • Job 12:11

    Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

  • Nehemiah 7:67

    besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

  • Ezra 2:65

    besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

  • 2 Samuel 13:25

    And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

  • 1 Peter 2:3

    if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: