21. And Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah's anointed?
22. And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
23. And the king said to Shimei, Thou shalt not die. And the king swore to him.
24. And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. Now he had neither washed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
25. And as soon as Jerusalem came to meet the king, the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?
26. And he said, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me; for thy servant said, I will saddle me the ass, and ride thereon, and go with the king; for thy servant is lame.
27. And he has slandered thy servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God do therefore what is good in thy sight.
28. For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; and thou didst set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table. What further right therefore have I? and for what should I cry any more to the king?
29. And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.
30. And Mephibosheth said to the king, Let him even take all, since my lord the king is come again in peace to his own house.
31. And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
32. And Barzillai was very aged, eighty years old; and it was he that had maintained the king while he abode at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
33. And the king said to Barzillai, Pass thou over with me, and I will maintain thee with me in Jerusalem.
34. And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
35. I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?