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2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barzillai;   Citizens;   David;   Liberality;   Longevity;   Loyalty;   Thompson Chain Reference - Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Hospitality;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Barzillai;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prophet;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Barzillai;   Gad (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ironsmith;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Age, Aged, Old Age;   Mahanaim;   Samuel, Books of;   Wealth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joram;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barzillai ;   Mahanaim ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Barzillai;   Mahanaim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Barzil'la-I;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Age;   Barzillai;   Samuel, Books of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barzillai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Friendship;   Hospitality;   Yudan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Barzillai was a very old man—eighty years old—and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the needs of the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
Hebrew Names Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Machanayim; for he was a very great man.
King James Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Lexham English Bible
Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years old. Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
English Standard Version
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
New Century Version
Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old. He had taken care of the king when David was staying at Mahanaim, because Barzillai was a very rich man.
New English Translation
But Barzillai was very old—eighty years old, in fact—and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.
Amplified Bible
Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great and wealthy man.
New American Standard Bible
Barzillai was very old: eighty years old; and he had provided the king food while he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeere olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance, while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substance.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
Contemporary English Version
Barzillai was eighty years old. He was very rich and had sent food to David in Mahanaim.
Complete Jewish Bible
Barzillai the Gil‘adi had come down from Roglim and passed on to the Yarden with the king to bring him across the Yarden.
Darby Translation
And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Easy-to-Read Version
Barzillai was a very old man, 80 years old. He had given the king food and other things when David was staying at Mahanaim. Barzillai could do this because he was a very rich man.
George Lamsa Translation
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he remained at Mahanaim; for he was a very wealthy man.
Good News Translation
Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old. He was very rich and had supplied the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim.
Literal Translation
And Barzillai was very old, a son of eighty years, and he had sustained the king as he abode in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Barsillai was very olde, so good as foure score yeare olde, the same had prouyded ye kynge of fode whyle he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very noble man.
American Standard Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Barzellai was a very aged man, euen foure score yeres olde, and prouided the king of sustenaunce while he laye at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substaunce.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he passed on to Jordan with the king, to bring him on the way over the Jordan.
King James Version (1611)
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeeres olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a very great man.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Berzelli was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had maintained the king when he dwelt in Manaim; for he was a very great man.
English Revised Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Berean Standard Bible
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Berzellai of Galaad was ful eld, that is, of foure score yeer, and he yaf metis to the kyng, whanne the kyng dwellyde in castels; for Berzellai was a ful riche man.
Young's Literal Translation
and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] a very great man;
Update Bible Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even 80 years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: for he [was] a very great man.
World English Bible
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
New King James Version
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.
New Living Translation
He was very old—eighty years of age—and very wealthy. He was the one who had provided food for the king during his stay in Mahanaim.
New Life Bible
Barzillai was eighty years old. He had given food to the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.
New Revised Standard
Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, Barzillai, was very aged, eighty years old, - and, he himself, had sustained the king, throughout his sojourn in Mahanaim, for he was, an exceeding great man.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.
Revised Standard Version
Barzil'lai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahana'im; for he was a very wealthy man.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

Contextual Overview

31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan. 32 Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem. 34 And Barzillai said to the king, How much of my life is still before me, for me to go up to Jerusalem with the king? 35 I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king? 36 Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward? 37 Let your servant now go back again, so that when death comes to me, it may be in my town and by the resting-place of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you. 38 And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you. 39 Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

fourscore: Genesis 5:27, Genesis 9:29, Genesis 25:7, Genesis 47:28, Genesis 50:26, Deuteronomy 34:7, Psalms 90:3-10, Proverbs 16:31

provided: 2 Samuel 17:27

for he was: 1 Samuel 25:2, Job 1:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 47:9 - have not Joshua 21:38 - Mahanaim 1 Samuel 9:1 - power 2 Samuel 16:1 - with a couple 2 Samuel 19:3 - into the city 2 Kings 4:8 - a great woman 2 Kings 4:13 - to the king 2 Kings 15:20 - the mighty 1 Chronicles 6:80 - Mahanaim Daniel 2:48 - a great Matthew 25:17 - he also

Cross-References

Genesis 9:21
And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Genesis 19:6
And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.
Genesis 19:7
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
Genesis 19:15
And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.
Genesis 19:16
But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.
Genesis 19:31
And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:
Genesis 19:33
And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.
Mark 12:19
Master, in the law Moses says, If a man's brother comes to his end, and has a wife still living and no child, it is right for his brother to take his wife, and get a family for his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old,.... Which was ten years beyond the common term of man's life, and reckoned a very great age in David's time, and has been ever since, and still is, see Psalms 90:10;

and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim: had supported him and his family, furnished him with provisions, and all the necessaries of life, during his stay there:

for he [was] a very great man; in wealth and riches, and was a very liberal man, and a man of great wisdom and good sense; and very probably was a man of great grace, which taught him his duty to his prince, and influenced him to show mercy to him in distress.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 19:32. Barzillai was a very aged man — This venerable person had given full proof of his attachment to David by the supplies he had given him when he lay at Mahanaim, where his case was all but desperate; the sincerity of his congratulations now none can suspect. David's offer to him was at once noble and liberal: he wished to compensate such a man, and he wished to have at hand such a friend.


 
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