³¹Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan. ³²Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years old.^h Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man. ³³The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide for you to dwell with me in Jerusalem.” ³⁴Then Barzillai said to the king, “What are the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem? ³⁵I am eighty years oldⁱ today.^j 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? ³⁶Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward? ³⁷Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city in the tomb of my father and my mother. Here is your servant Kimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him that which is good in your eyes.” ³⁸The king said, “Let Kimham go over with me, and I will do for him the good in your eyes, and all that you desire of me I will do for you.”

³⁹Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place.

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Footnotes

hLiterally “a son of eighty years”
iLiterally “a son of eighty years”
jLiterally “the day”