◄ 2 Samuel 19:36 ►
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Good News Translation
I don't deserve such a great reward. So I will go just a little way with you beyond the Jordan.

New Revised Standard Version
Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

Contemporary English Version
I'll cross the river with you, but I'll only go a little way on the other side. You don't have to be so kind to me.

New American Bible
In escorting the king across the Jordan, your servant is doing little enough! Why should the king give me this reward?

Douay-Rheims Bible
I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.

the king

Luke 6:38 Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Context
David's Kindness to Barzillai
…35I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king? 36I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.37But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?

2 Samuel 19:37
But I beseech thee let thy servant return, and die in my own city, and be buried by the sepulchre of my father, and of my mother. But there is thy servant Chamaam, let him go with thee, my lord, the king, and do to him whatsoever seemeth good to thee.

2 Samuel 19:35
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