Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
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Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?
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Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
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(19-37) Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
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Passages linked to 2 Samuel 19:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Sa 19:36 Thy servant will go a little way…
2Sa 19:36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
Ver. 36. And why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?] The saints in heaven say so doubtless; being wholly swallowed up with admiration at that "excessive and eternal weight of glory," so freely conferred upon them. For coals we shall have pearls, said that martyr to his fellows; joys without measure or mixture; desiderio generante satistatem, et satistate desiderium parante, as Bernard {a} hath it; desire begetting satiety, and satiety bringing forth desire.
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{a} De Pass. Dom.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A little way over Jordan; a little onward in…
A little way over Jordan; a little onward in thy way to Jerusalem, and then return.
Recompense it me, or, recompense me, to wit, for my small kindness to thee at Mahanaim, which was but a part of my duty to thee.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan…
Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king,.... That is, go a little way after he was over Jordan with him, and then return to his own city:
and why should the king recompense it with such a reward? the sense is, why should the king recompense so trifling a thing as I have done, and which was but my duty, with such a reward, as to maintain me in so grand a manner at his court?
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Sa 19:36-38. Why should the king recompense it me…
2Sa 19:36-38. Why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?— Since he had but done his duty to his sovereign, he did not expect to be so highly rewarded for it. That I may die in mine own city — That my bones may, with little ado, be carried to the place of their rest. The grave is ready for me; let me go and get ready for it, go and die in my house. But behold thy servant Chimham — That he might not seem rude in refusing the king’s gracious offer, he desires him to transfer his kindness to his son, and bestow upon him what he pleased. The king answered, Chimham shall go over with me — He readily consented to take the young man with him, promised to provide for him, and assured Barzillai he would do every thing else he desired.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain With thee. He did not proceed as far as…
With thee. He did not proceed as far as Galgal; (Haydock) but took his leave of the king, intimating, what we never witness at the present day, that he was too old to enjoy the pleasures of a court! (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).