2 Samuel 19:32-38
fourscore Gen 5:27, Gen 9:29, Gen 25:7, Gen 47:28, Gen 50:26; Deut 34:7; Ps 90:3-10; Prov 16:31 provided 2Sam 17:27 for he was 1Sam 25:2; Job 1:3 Come thou 2Sam 9:11; Matt 25:34-40; Luke 22:28-30; 2Thess 1:7 How long have I to live Heb. How many days are the years of my life, Gen 47:9; Job 14:14; Ps 39:5-6; 1Cor 7:29; Jas 4:14 can I discern Job 6:30, Job 12:11; Heb 5:14; 1Pet 2:3 taste Eccl 12:1-5 I hear Ezra 2:65; Neh 7:67; Exod 2:8, Exod 12:4 a burden 2Sam 13:25, 2Sam 15:33 the king Luke 6:38 Let thy The whole of this little episode is extremely interesting, and contains an affecting description of the infirmities of old age. The venerable and kind Barzillai was fourscore years old; his ear was become dull of hearing, and his relish for even royal dainties was gone. The evil days had arrived in which he was constrained to say, "I have no pleasure in them" (Eccl 12:1). As he was too old either to enjoy the pleasures of a court, or to be of any further service to the king, he finishes his affecting address to the aged monarch with the request, that he would suffer him to enjoy what old men naturally desire, to "die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and mother;" at the same time commending his son Chimham to his kind offices. I may die Gen 48:21; Josh 23:14; Luke 2:29-30; 2Tim 4:6; 2Pet 1:14 by the grave Gen 47:30, Gen 49:29-31, Gen 50:13; 1Kgs 13:22 Chimham 2Sam 19:40; 1Kgs 2:7; Jer 41:17 require Heb. choose, 2Sam 19:38
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