2 Samuel 19:33-35
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
33 The king said to Barzillai, ‘Come over with me, and I will provide for you in Jerusalem at my side.’ 34 But Barzillai said to the king, ‘How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? 35 Today I am 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?
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