2 Samuel 19:32

Barzillai was a very old and wealthy man who had sustained David during his stay at Mahanaim. It matters because his generosity in David's need showed true and costly loyalty.

Cross-references · 11

• Deut 34:7And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
• 1 Sam 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
• Prov 16:31The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
• Job 1:3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
• Gen 25:7And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.
• Gen 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
• Gen 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
• Gen 9:29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
• Gen 50:26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
• Ps 90:3–10Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
• 2 Sam 17:27–29And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

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