2 Samuel 19:36
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
2 Samuel 19:36 in other translations
| BSB | Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward? |
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| WEB | Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? |
| ASV | Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? |
| YLT | As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense? |
| DARBY | Thy servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it to me with this reward? |
| BBE | Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward? |
| Webster | Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with such a reward? |
What does 2 Samuel 19:36 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 19:31-43
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 personal patrimony…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 19:31-39
Barzillai thought he had done himself honour in doing the king any service. Thus, when the saints shall be called to inherit the kingdom, they will be amazed at the recompence being so very far beyond the service, Mt 25:37. A good man would not go any where to be burdensome; or, will rather be so to his own house than to another's. It is good for all, but especially becomes old people, to think and speak much of…
2 Samuel 19:36 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 19:36
- Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
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Context
- 2 Samuel 19:35
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:36
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
- 2 Samuel 19:37
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
2 Samuel 19:36 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pasará tu siervo un poco el Jordán con el rey: ¿por qué me ha de dar el rey tan grande recompensa? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Je suis aujourd’hui âgé de 80 ans; puis-je distinguer ce qui est bon de ce qui est mauvais? Ton serviteur peut-il savourer ce que je mange et ce que je bois? Puis-je encore entendre la voix des chanteurs et des chanteuses? Et pourquoi ton serviteur serait-il encore à charge au roi, mon seigneur? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Dein Knecht würde nur auf kurze Zeit mit dem König über den Jordan gehen; und warum sollte der König mir diese Vergeltung erweisen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Paululum procedam famulus tuus ab Jordane tecum: non indigeo hac vicissitudine, |