2 Samuel 19:37

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Please let your servant return, so that I may die in my own town, near the graves of my father and my mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king and do for him whatever seems good to you.”

Cross References

Genesis 47:30

When I lie down with my ancestors, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” He answered, “I will do as you have said.”

Genesis 48:21

Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, the field near Mamre, which Abraham bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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?

2 Samuel 19:38

The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”

2 Samuel 19:40

The king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; all the people of Judah, and also half the people of Israel, brought the king on his way.

1 Kings 13:22

but have come back and have eaten food and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, ‘Eat no food, and drink no water,’ your body shall not come to your ancestral tomb.”

1 Kings 2:7

Deal loyally, however, with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

1 Kings 4:5

Azariah son of Nathan was over the officials; Zabud son of Nathan was priest and king’s friend;

Jeremiah 41:17

And they set out and stopped at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

2 Timothy 4:6

As for me, I am already being poured out as a libation, and the time of my departure has come.

Joshua 23:14

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

2 Peter 1:14

since I know that my death will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.