2 Samuel 19:35

David Pardons His Enemies

³⁴ Barzillai replied to the king, “How many years of my life are left that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king? ³⁵ I’m now 80 years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king? ³⁶ Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward?

Male and Female

My Lord the King

Take Pleasure In

No

2 Samuel 15:33

David said to him, “If you go away with me, you’ll be a burden to me,

Ezra 2:65

not including their 7,337 male and female slaves, and their 200 male and female singers.

Psalm 90:10

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Exodus 2:8

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

Exodus 12:4

If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

2 Samuel 13:25

The king replied to Absalom, “No, my son, we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he wasn’t willing to go, though he did bless him.

Nehemiah 7:67

not including their 7,337 male and female slaves, as well as their 245 male and female singers.

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue
or can my palate not taste disaster?

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Job 12:11

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered male and female singers for myself, and many concubines, the delights of men.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth:

Before the days of adversity come,
and the years approach when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;

Isaiah 5:11-12

Woe to those who rise early in the morning
in pursuit of beer,
who linger into the evening,
inflamed by wine.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature—for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil.

1 Peter 2:3

since you have tasted that the Lord is good.