2 Samuel 19:35-37

Revised Geneva Translation

³⁵ “I am this day eighty years old, and can I discern between good or evil? Has your servant any taste in what I eat, or in that I drink? Can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why, then, should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?

³⁶ “Your servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king. And why would the king repay me with such a reward?

³⁷ “Please let your servant turn back again, so that I may die in my own city and be buried in the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold your servant Chimham. Let him go with my lord the king and do with him what shall please you.”