The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:21 (KJV)
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD'S anointed?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:22 (KJV)
And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:23
New International Version (NIV)

So the king said to Shimei, “You shall not die.” And the king promised him on oath.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:24 (KJV)
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:25 (HCSB)
When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, "Mephibosheth, why didn't you come with me?""

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:26
New International Version (NIV)

He said, “My lord the king, since I your servant am lame, I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it, so I can go with the king.’ But Ziba my servant betrayed me.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:27 (KJV)
And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:28 (KJ2000)
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet did you set your servant among them that did eat at your own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:28, "“For all of my father’s house were but dead men before my master the sovereign. Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to cry out any more to the sovereign?”"

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:29
New International Version (NIV)

The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:30 (KJV)
And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.

 

[slave]

(2 Samuel 19:31): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)

31 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.

 

[slave]

[h=1](2 Samuel 19:32): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT=&quot]32 Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.[/FONT]


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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:33 (KJV)
And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem.

 

[Hizikyah]

2 Samuel 19:33, "And the sovereign said to Barzillai, “Pass over with me, and I shall provide for you with me in Yerushalayim.”"

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:34
New International Version (NIV)

But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:35 (ESV)
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?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:36 (ESV)
Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

2 Samuel 19:37 (KJV)
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

 

[willfollowsGod]

2 Samuel 19:38
New International Version (NIV)

The king said, “Kimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever you wish. And anything you desire from me I will do for you.”