David said to him: “If you come with me, you will be a burden to me;
but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘Let me be your servant, O king; I was formerly your father’s servant, but now I will be yours,’ you will thwart for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
But Barzillai answered the king: “How much longer have I to live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?