2 Samuel 19:32

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“Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.”

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BSBPD

“Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and Barzillai <FI>is<Fi> very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he <FI>is<Fi> a very great man;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Samuel 19:32 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 5:27So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
  2. Genesis 9:29So Noah lived a total of 950 years, and then he died.
  3. Genesis 25:7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
  4. Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
  5. Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
  6. Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
  7. 1 Samuel 25:2Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
  8. 2 Samuel 17:27When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
  9. 2 Kings 15:20Menahem exacted this money from each of the wealthy men of Israel—fifty shekels of silver from each man—to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria withdrew and did not remain in the land.
  10. Job 1:3and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
  11. Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
  12. Proverbs 16:31Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
  13. Matthew 25:17Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.

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