David said to him, “If you pass on with me then you will be a burden to me,
but if you return to the city and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king—I was your father’s servant from then, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can thwart Ahithophel’s counsel for me.
But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years are left of my life that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?