World English Bible
"Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?"
— 2 Samuel 19:36, World English Bible
“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”
“Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward? ”
“I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?”
“I thy servant will go on a little way from the Jordan with thee: I need not this recompense.”
“Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?”
“Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?”
The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem."
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?
I am this day eighty years old. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
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."
The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you."
All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.