2 Samuel 19:35-37
1599 Geneva Bible
35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good or evil? Hath thy servant any taste in that I eat, or in that I drink? Can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? wherefore then should thy servant be anymore a [a]burthen unto my lord the king?
36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king, and why will the king recompense it me with such a reward?
37 I pray thee, let thy servant turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried in the grave of my father and of my mother: but behold thy servant [b]Chimham, let him go with my lord the King, and do to him what shall please thee.
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- 2 Samuel 19:35 He thought it not meet to receive benefits of him to whom he was not able to do service again.
- 2 Samuel 19:37 My son.
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