32. Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years old. Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
33. The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide for you to dwell with me in Jerusalem.”
34. Then Barzillai said to the king, “What are the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem?
35. I am eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king?
36. Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward?