John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 19:32

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old, etc.] 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 <199010>Psalm 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.

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