2 Samuel 19:35

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

I am this day 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, lest we 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 menservants and maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers.

Nehemiah 7:67

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

Job 12:11

Does not the ear try 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 years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Exodus 12:4

and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 2:8

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, “Go.” 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 provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.

Hebrews 5:14

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

1 Peter 2:3

for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.