2 Samuel 19:34

WEB

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?

KJV

And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?

Commentary

And Barzillai said unto the king,.... In answer to the grateful proposal he made: how long have I to live; that could not be said wi th exactness by any; but it might be probably conjectured from the age he was of, and the infirmities that attended him, that he could not live long; it was but a short time he had to be in the world: that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem? take so long a journey as that, seeing he might die before he got thither; and if he did not, since it could not be thought he should live long, he could not think of it, or judge it advisable at such an age to take such a journey, change his place of abode, and manner of living.