2 Samuel 19:36

36 Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?

2 Samuel 19:36 in Other Translations

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?

36 Your servant will go a little way over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

36 Just to go across the Jordan River with the king is all the honor I need!

36 I'll just go a little way across the Jordan with the king. But why would the king need to make a great thing of that?

36 Since your servant is only going with the king a little way across the Jordan, why should the king repay me with such a reward?

2 Samuel 19:36 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 19:36

Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king,
&c.] 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?

2 Samuel 19:36 In-Context

34 But Barzillai answered the king, “How many more years will I live, that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?

35 I am now eighty years old. Can I tell the difference between what is enjoyable and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

36 Your servant will cross over the Jordan with the king for a short distance, but why should the king reward me in this way?

37 Let your servant return, that I may die in my own town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him whatever you wish.”

38 The king said, “Kimham shall cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever you wish. And anything you desire from me I will do for you.”