2 Samuel 19:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

2 Samuel 19:34 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:14
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.
1 Corinthians 7:29
But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
Genesis 47:8-9
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? …
Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Psalms 39:5-6
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. …

Topics

Age, Old Aged Barzillai Infirmity Longevity Old Age Veneration

Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 34)

31-40. Barzillai the Gileadite--The rank, great age, and chivalrous devotion of this Gileadite chief wins our respect. His declining to go to court, his recommendation of his son, his convoy across the Jordan, and his parting scene with the king, are interesting incidents. What mark of royal favor was bestowed on Chimham has not been recorded; but it is probable that David gave a great part of his…