2 Samuel 19:36

Douay-Rheims Bible

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward?

Hebrew Names Version
Your servant would but just go over the Yarden with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

King James Version
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Lexham English Bible
Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward?

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

New Century Version
I am not worthy of a reward from you, but I will cross the Jordan River with you.

New English Translation
I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?

Amplified Bible
"Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward?

New American Standard Bible
"Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. So why should the king compensate me with this reward?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thy seruant will goe a litle way ouer Iorden with the King, and why wil the king recompence it me with such a rewarde?

Legacy Standard Bible
Your servant would merely pass over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this 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.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am now eighty years old. Can I tell good from bad? Can your servant even taste what he eats or drinks? Can I hear the voice of men and women singing any more? Why should your servant burden my lord the king?

Darby Translation
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?

Easy-to-Read Version
I don't need any of the things that you want to give me. I will cross the Jordan River with you.

George Lamsa Translation
Your servant can hardly cross the Jordan with my lord the king; let not my lord the king recompense me with such a reward.

Good News Translation
I don't deserve such a great reward. So I will go just a little way with you beyond the Jordan.

Literal Translation
Just a little way your servant shall cross over the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with this reward?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
thy seruaunt shall go a litle with the kynge ouer Iordane. Why wil the kynge recompence me after this maner?

American Standard Version
Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Bible in Basic English
Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy seruaunt will go a litle way ouer Iordane with the king: & why wyl the king recompence it me with such a rewarde?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am this day fourscore years old; can I discern between good and bad? 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?

King James Version (1611)
Thy seruant will goe a little way ouer Iordane with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why does the king return me this recompense?

English Revised Version
Thy servant would but just go over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Berean Standard Bible
Your servant could go with the king only a short distance past the Jordan; why should the king repay me with such a reward?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y thi seruaunt schal go forth a litil fro Jordan with thee, Y haue no nede to this yeldyng;

Young's Literal Translation
As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?

Update Bible Version
Your slave would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

World English Bible
Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

New King James Version
Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with such a reward?

New Living Translation
Just to go across the Jordan River with the king is all the honor I need!

New Life Bible
Your servant will only cross over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king reward me in this good way?

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Just a little way, will thy servant pass over the Jordan with the king, - but wherefore should the king recompense me with this reward?

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?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your servant would merely cross over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king compensate me with this reward?

Contextual Overview

³¹ Berzellai also the Galaadite coming down from Rogelim, brought the king over the Jordan, being ready also to wait on him beyond the river. ³² 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. ³³ And the king said to Berzellai: Come with me that thou mayest rest secure with me in Jerusalem. ³⁴ And Berzellai 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 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? ³⁶ I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense. 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. ³⁸ Then the king said to him: Let Chamaam go over with me, and I will do for him whatsoever shall please thee, and all that thou shalt ask of me, thou shalt obtain. ³⁹ And when all the people and the king had passed over the Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai, and blessed him: and he returned to his own place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: Luke 6:38

Cross-References

Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them, and shut the door after him, and said:

Genesis 19:7
Do not so, I beseech you, my brethren, do not commit this evil.

Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who, as yet, have not known man; I will bring them out to you, and abuse you them as it shall please you, so that you do no evil to these men, because they are come in under the shadow of my roof.

Judges 1:7
And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said: As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed him in pieces before the Lord in Galgal.

Habakkuk 2:15
Woe to him that giveth drink to his friend, and presenteth his gall, and maketh him drunk, that he may behold his nakedness.

Matthew 7:2
For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king,.... That is, go a little way after he was over Jordan with him, and then return to his own city:

and why should the king recompense it with such a reward? the sense is, why should the king recompense so trifling a thing as I have done, and which was but my duty, with such a reward, as to maintain me in so grand a manner at his court?