2 Samuel 19:35-37

International Standard Version

³⁵ I’m now 80 years old! I can hardly tell the difference between what tastes^[a] good or bad! I can’t tell what I eat or drink! I can’t hear the voice of men and women when they sing! So why should your servant be an added burden to your majesty the king? ³⁶ Your servant will cross the Jordan River^[b] with the king for a short distance, but why should the king offer me this reward? ³⁷ Please let your servant return so I can die in my own home town near the grave of my father and mother. Meanwhile, here is your servant Chimham!^[c] Let him accompany your majesty the king. Please do for him whatever seems best to you.”