2 Samuele 19:32

32 E Barzillai era molto vecchio, d’età di ottant’anni; ed egli avea nudrito il re, mentre era dimorato in Mahanaim; perciocchè egli era uomo di grandissime facoltà.

2 Samuele 19:32 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old,
&c.] Which was ten years beyond the common term of man's life, and reckoned a very great age in David's time, and has been ever since, and still is, see ( Psalms 90:10 ) ;

and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim:
had supported him and his family, furnished him with provisions, and all the necessaries of life, during his stay there:

for he [was] a very great man;
in wealth and riches, and was a very liberal man, and a man of great wisdom and good sense; and very probably was a man of great grace, which taught him his duty to his prince, and influenced him to show mercy to him in distress.

2 Samuele 19:32 In-Context

30 E Mefiboset disse al re: Anzi prenda egli pure il tutto, poichè il re, mio signore, è venuto in pace in casa sua.

31 Or Barzillai Galaadita era disceso da Roghelim, e passò il Giordano col re, per accompagnarlo fin di là dal Giordano.

32 E Barzillai era molto vecchio, d’età di ottant’anni; ed egli avea nudrito il re, mentre era dimorato in Mahanaim; perciocchè egli era uomo di grandissime facoltà.

33 E il re disse a Barzillai: Tu, vientene meco, ed io ti nudrirò appresso di me in Gerusalemme.

34 Ma Barzillai disse al re: Di che età sono io, per salir col re in Gerusalemme?