34And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? …
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-39)David had already graced the triumphs of his restoration with the generous remission of the injuries that had been done to him; we have him here gracing them with a no less generous reward of the kindnesses that had been shown to him. Barzillai, the Gileadite, who had a noble seat at Rogelim, not far from Mahanaim, was the man who, of all the nobility and gentry of that country, had been most kind…
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