2 Samuel 15:33

Modern English Version

David said to him, “If you pass on with me, you will be a burden to me.

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:34

But if you return to the city, you may say to Absalom, ‘I am your servant, O king, as I was a servant of your father. As I was then, so now I am your servant,’ so as to counter the advice of Ahithophel.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant from what is harmful? Can your servant taste what I eat and what I drink? Can I still hear the voices of men and women who sing? Why, then, should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?