2 Samuel 15:33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:34

But if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so now I will be your servant,’ then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.

2 Samuel 19:35

Today I am eighty years old; can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?