2 Samuel 19:35

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:25

But the king said to Absalom, “No, my son, let us not all go, or else we will be burdensome to you.” He pressed him, but he would not go but gave him his blessing.

2 Samuel 15:33

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

2 Samuel 19:36

Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king recompense me with such a reward?

Ezra 2:65

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

Nehemiah 7:67

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

Job 12:11

Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

Job 6:30

Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Exodus 12:4

If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it.

Exodus 2:8

Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Yes.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.