32. Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. And he had provided the king with supplies while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.
33. And the king said to Barzillai, “Come across with me, and I will provide for you while you are with me in Jerusalem.”
34. But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
35. I am today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?
36. Your servant will go a little way across the Jordan with the king. And why should the king repay me with such a reward?
37. Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”