2 Samuel 19:35
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
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Cross references
- 2 Samuel 15:33 David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
- Ezra 2:65 in addition to their 7,337 menservants and maidservants, as well as their 200 male and female singers.
- Psalm 90:10 The length of our days is seventy years — or eighty if we are strong — yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.