 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord...  Sermons, tr. by R. Robinson (H. Hunter) - Page 154by Jacques Saurin - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 578 pages
...forget her tucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb ? Isaiah xlix. I5. Can I hear any more the voice of singing men, and singing women ? 2 Sam. ii. 35. In all these, and the like, instances, there is plainly nothing meant, but inability of... | |
 | 1818 - 948 pages
...said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I sbould go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? ou 1 r "The American Bible Society" 38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him son of that which shall... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 pages
...acknowledged. If the amusements of life have lost their relish; if you say as Barzillai did to King David, " I am this day fourscore years old, and can I discern...good and evil ? Can thy servant taste what I eat, and what I drink? Can I hear any more the voice of singing men or singing women?"* Let it at the same... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...said unto the king, How lone: have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? 35 gooa and evil? can thy servant taste what feat or what I c? shall go over with me, and I will do to... | |
 | John Galt - Electronic book - 1821 - 284 pages
...kir.k I had chosen as my text, from Second Samuel, xixth chapter, and 35th verse, these words — " Can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women ? Wherefore, then, should thy servant be yet a burden to the King." And hardly had I with a trembling... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...singing women, who, as is well known, were in great request among the Orientals. Thus Barzillai says, " I am this day fourscore years old ; and can I discern...the voice of singing men and singing women ?" — (2 Sam. xix. 35.) Dr. Smith, who is followed by Parkhurst, understands the phrase to mean the organs which... | |
 | William Brown - Jews - 1823 - 536 pages
...this beautiful reply :" " How long have I to live that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem ? I am this day fourscore years old ; and can I discern...any more the voice of singing men and singing women? Wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?" Mr. Parkd speaks fully of... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1823 - 670 pages
...impotent dominion, unless subdued by divine grace. " Can thy servant taste what I 1 Lukexii. 16— 21. " eat, or what I drink ? Can I hear any more the " voice of singing men or singing women P"1 The aged sinner resembles the sapless trunk of an old tree, when the branches... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 pages
...discloses the prevailing sentiments of his heart in this pathetic and very impressive language — " I am this *' day fourscore years old ; and can I discern...? Can I hear any more the voice " of singing- men or singing- women? Wherefore, then, " should thy servant be yet a burden unto my Lord "the King?" The... | |
 | David Osgood - Congregational churches - 1824 - 486 pages
...Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem f I am this day fourscore years old ; and can I discern...and evil ? can thy servant taste what I eat, or what 1 drink ? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singingwomen ? Wherefore then should thy... | |
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