Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 19:32

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.

32. provided of sustenance ] An obsolete use of the preposition of where we now employ with.

lay ] i.e. abode. Cp. Jos 2:1, marg.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Verse 32. Barzillai was a very aged man] This venerable person had given full proof of his attachment to David by the supplies he had given him when he lay at Mahanaim, where his case was all but desperate; the sincerity of his congratulations now none can suspect. David’s offer to him was at once noble and liberal: he wished to compensate such a man, and he wished to have at hand such a friend.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old,…. 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 Ps 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.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(32) Provided the king of sustenance.An old use of the preposition of, meaning with. The word is the same here as that translated in the next verse feed thee, and there is an especial fitness in the use of the same word in both cases which is lost in the English Version. It is translated nourish in Gen. 45:11; Gen. 47:12; Gen. 1:21, &c., and sustain in 1Ki. 17:9, Neh. 9:21, &c. The king proposes to return Barzillais service in kind, but multiplied manifold.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

32. A very great man A man of great wealth and influence in Gilead.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

2Sa 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, [even] fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he [was] a very great man.

Ver. 32. Now Barzillai was a very aged man. ] Senex quasi seminex, he had lost his colour, but had kept his sweet savour with the rose: and like a flower, though he were withering, yet “the root of the matter was in him,” as Job speaketh.

For he was a very great man. ] Else he could not have so long sustained the king and his company. Crassus accounted no man rich that could not do as much. Pythias, by entertaining Xerxes and his great army, came to extreme poverty.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

fourscore: Gen 5:27, Gen 9:29, Gen 25:7, Gen 47:28, Gen 50:26, Deu 34:7, Psa 90:3-10, Pro 16:31

provided: 2Sa 17:27

for he was: 1Sa 25:2, Job 1:3

Reciprocal: Gen 47:9 – have not Jos 21:38 – Mahanaim 1Sa 9:1 – power 2Sa 16:1 – with a couple 2Sa 19:3 – into the city 2Ki 4:8 – a great woman 2Ki 4:13 – to the king 2Ki 15:20 – the mighty 1Ch 6:80 – Mahanaim Dan 2:48 – a great Mat 25:17 – he also

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge