...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...