In Context

33 The king said to Barzillai, |Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem.|

34 Barzillai said to the king, |How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

35 I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.|

38 The king answered, |Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you.|

2 Samuel 19:36 in Other Translations