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Berzellai of Galaad was an old man, eighty years old; he it was that brought the king provisions, while he lay at the Encampment, for he was a man of great riches. (2 Samuel 19, 32)
To him the king said, Bear me company, and take thy ease with me at Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 19, 33)
But Berzellai answered, What, a man of my years go up to Jerusalem with the king’s grace? (2 Samuel 19, 34)
I am eighty years old now; are my senses still keen, to tell sweet from bitter? Can thy servant take pleasure in food and drink? Can my ear catch the tone of songster and songstress? Nay, I would not be a burden to my lord the king; (2 Samuel 19, 35)
rather, my prayer is that I should be allowed to go back and die in my own city, and be buried close to the grave where my father and mother lie. Here is thy servant Chamaam; let him go with thee, my lord king, and do with him what thou wilt. (2 Samuel 19, 37)
Chamaam shall go with me, the king replied, and it shall be for thee to choose what is to be done with him; no request of thine shall go ungranted. (2 Samuel 19, 38)
So, when he and all the people had crossed over Jordan, the king kissed Berzellai and blessed him, and he went home, (2 Samuel 19, 39)
while the king passed on to Galgal, and Chamaam with him.All the men of Juda had been the king’s escort, but of the other Israelites only a half; (2 Samuel 19, 40)
and now the men of Israel came to him with one accord, and asked, How is it that our brethren, the men of Juda, have stolen thee from us? By what warrant did they escort the king, and his household and the warriors of David’s army, on their passage over Jordan? (2 Samuel 19, 41)
Why, answered the men of Juda, he is nearer of kin to us. There is no cause here for anger. Have we lived on the king’s bounty, or been singled out to receive his gifts? (2 Samuel 19, 42)
And the Israelites replied, We are ten to one; our rights with the king, our claims upon David, are ten times as great as yours. Why did you wrong us by not conferring with us first about our king’s restoration? Thus either side pleaded its own cause, but the men of Juda more bitterly than the men of Israel. (2 Samuel 19, 43)
So the king came home. As for the ten concubines he had left in charge of the palace, he shut these away, giving them their allowance of food still, but never again having commerce with them; they remained shut away in their widowhood as long as they lived. (2 Samuel 20, 3)
