2 Samuel 19:35

New King James Version

I am today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:25

But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go now, lest we be a burden to you.” Then he urged him, but he would not go; and he blessed him.

2 Samuel 15:33

David said to him, “If you go on with me, then you will become a burden to me.

2 Samuel 19:36

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

Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred men and women singers.

Nehemiah 7:67

besides their male and female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women singers.

Job 12:11

Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food?

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern the unsavory?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Exodus 12:4

And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.