2 Samuel 19:35

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sekarang ini aku telah berumur delapan puluh tahun; masakan aku masih dapat membedakan antara yang baik dan yang tidak baik? Atau masih dapatkah hambamu ini merasai apa yang hamba makan atau apa yang hamba minum? Atau masih dapatkah aku mendengarkan suara penyanyi laki-laki dan penyanyi perempuan? Apa gunanya hambamu ini lagi menjadi beban bagi tuanku raja?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sekarang ini aku telah berumur delapan puluh tahun; masakan aku masih dapat membedakan antara yang baik dan yang tidak baik? Atau masih dapatkah hambamu ini merasai apa yang hamba makan atau apa yang hamba minum? Atau masih dapatkah aku mendengarkan suara penyanyi laki-laki dan penyanyi perempuan? Apa gunanya hambamu ini lagi menjadi beban bagi tuanku raja?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa sekarang umur patik sudah delapan puluh tahun, manakan patik dapat lagi membedakan antara jahat dengan baik; manakan patik dapat lagi merasai sedapnya barang yang patik makan dan minum kelak; manakan patik mendengar lagi akan bunyi suara biduan laki-laki dan perempuan; betapa gerangan patik ini memberatkan lagi tuanku?

Contextual Overview

³¹ And Barzellai ye Gileadite came downe from Roglim, and went ouer Iordane with the king, to conduct him ouer Iordane. ³² 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. ³³ And the king said vnto Barzellai, come ouer with me, & I will feede thee with me in Hierusalem. ³⁴ And Barzellai saide vnto the king: How long haue I to liue, that I shuld go vp with the king vnto Hierusalem? ³⁵ I am this day foure score yeres olde: & can I deserue betweene good or euyll? Hath thy seruaunt any taste in that he eateth or drinketh? Can he heare any more the voyce of syngyng men and women? wherfore the should thy seruaunt be yet a burthen vnto my lord the king? ³⁶ Thy seruaunt will go a litle way ouer Iordane with the king: & why wyl the king recompence it me with such a rewarde? ³⁷ O let thy seruaunt turne backe agayne, that I may dye in myne owne citie, and [be buryed] in the graue of my father & of my mother: Beholde, here is thy seruaunt Chimham, let him go with my lorde the king, and do to him what shall please thee. ³⁸ And the king aunswered: Chimham shall go with me, and I will do to him that thou shalt be content with: And what soeuer thou shalt require of me, that same will I do for thee. ³⁹ And al the people went ouer Iordane: and whe the king was come ouer Iordane, he kissed Barzellai, & blessed him, & he went backe againe vnto his owne place.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

can I discern: Job 6:30, Job 12:11, Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 2:3

taste: Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

I hear: Ezra 2:65, Nehemiah 7:67, Exodus 2:8, Exodus 12:4

a burden: 2 Samuel 13:25, 2 Samuel 15:33

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:9 - when Psalms 90:10 - yet Ecclesiastes 2:8 - men singers Ecclesiastes 12:4 - all Luke 7:25 - are in

Cross-References

Genesis 19:11
And the men that were at the doore of the house they smoke with blyndenesse both small and great, so that they were weryed in sekyng the doore.

Genesis 19:12
And the men sayde vnto Lot: Hast thou here any besides? sonne in lawe, and thy sonnes, and thy daughters, and whatsoeuer thou hast in the citie, bryng them out of this place:

Psalms 8:4
What is man that thou art myndfull of him? and the sonne of man that thou visitest hym?

Proverbs 24:16
For a iust man falleth seuen tymes, and ryseth vp agayne: but the vngodly fall into mischiefe.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I founde that a woman is bitterer then death, the whiche hath cast abrode her heart as a net that men fishe with, and her handes are chaynes: Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner wyll be taken with her.

Luke 21:34
Take heede to your selues, lest at any tyme your heartes be ouercome with surfettyng and dronkennesse, and cares of this lyfe, and so the daye come vpon you vnwares.

1 Peter 4:7
The ende of all thynges is at hande. Be ye therefore sober, and watche vnto prayer.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I [am] this day fourscore years old,.... Not that that day was precisely his birthday, but that he was about such an age, very little under or over; very probably he was full that age:

[and] can I discern between good and evil? signifying, either that his intellectual powers were impaired, and could not distinguish what was right and wrong, and so could be of no service to David in his privy council, or any court of judicature, he was fit for no post or office under him; or that his natural senses were not quick to distinguish between good and bad, particularly between good and bad food, which he could neither discern by smell nor taste, as follows:

can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? have any gust or relish of, or take any delight or pleasure in eating and drinking; so that the most delicious food, and richest wines, and all the dainties of a king's table, would signify nothing to him:

can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? either being so deaf that he could not hear them at all, or however not with any delight; the evil days being come upon him, in which he could take no pleasure in the diversions of a court:

wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king? he could neither take any pleasure himself, nor be of any service to the king, but on the contrary a burden to him; not only on account of his sustenance, and being obliged to have servants to attend him, which might be the least part of his burden, but his company would be disagreeable and troublesome, through the infirmities of old age upon him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 19:35. Can thy servant taste what I eat — Here is at once an affecting description of the infirmities of old age; and a correct account of the mode of living at an Eastern court in ancient times.

Barzillai was fourscore years old; his ear was become dull of hearing, and his relish for his food was gone: he therefore appears to have been not only an old man, but an infirm old man. Besides delicate meats and drinks, we find that vocal music constituted a principal part of court entertainments: male and female singers made a necessary appendage to these banquets, as they do in most Eastern courts to the present day. As David was a most sublime poet, and emphatically styled the sweet singer of Israel, he no doubt had his court well supplied with vocal as well as instrumental performers; and, probably, with poets and poetesses; for it is not likely that he was the only poet of his time, though he undoubtedly was the most excellent.