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2 Samuel 19:36 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward? "
2 Samuel 19:36
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
34 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 eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?
36 Your servant will just go over the Jordan with the king. 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, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.”
38 The king answered, “Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you request of me, that I will do for you.”
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2 Samuel 19:1
"Joab was told, “Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.”"
2 Samuel 19:2
"The victory that day was turned into mourning among all the people, for the people heard it said that day, “The king grieves for his son.”"
2 Samuel 19:3
"The people sneaked into the city that day, as people who are ashamed steal away when they flee in battle."
2 Samuel 19:4
"The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”"
2 Samuel 19:5
"Joab came into the house to the king, and said, “Today you have shamed the faces of all your servants who today have saved your life, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;"
2 Samuel 19:6
"in that you love those who hate you and hate those who love you. For you have declared today that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived and we had all died today, then it would have pleased you well."
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