THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 19:32Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich.
וּבַרְזִלַּי֙ הַגִּלְעָדִ֔י יָרַ֖ד מֵרֹגְלִ֑ים וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ר אֶת־הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן לְשַׁלְּח֖וֹ אֶת־בירדן הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 25:2Now there was a certain man in the wilderness of Maon, and his possessions were in Carmel, and the man was very great: and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and it happened that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- Prov 16:31Old age is a crown of dignity, when it is found in the ways of justice.
- Job 1:3And his possession was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a family exceedingly great: and this man was great among all the people of the east.
- Deut 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.
- Gen 9:29And all his days were in the whole nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
- Gen 47:28And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.
- Gen 25:7And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.
- Gen 5:27And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.