2 Samuel 19:35 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | WEB

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

Commentaries

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

I [am] this day fourscore years old Not that that day was precisely his birthday, but that he was about such an age, very…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

Barzillai thought he honored himself by performing any service for the king. Thus, when the saints will be called to inherit the kingdom, they will…

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