Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Provided

For he was

Bible References

Fourscore

Genesis 5:27
and all the days of Methuselah were, nine hundred and sixty-nine years, - and he died.
Genesis 9:29
so, all the days of Noah, were - nine hundred and fifty years, - and he died.
Genesis 25:7
Now, these, are the days of the years of the life of Abraham which he lived - a hundred and seventy-five years.
Genesis 47:28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, - so it came to pass that the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred and forty-seven years.
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, - and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 34:7
Now, Moses, was a hundred and twenty years old, when he died, - his eye had not dimmed, nor had his freshness fled.
Psalm 90:3
Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said - Return, ye sons of Adam!
Proverbs 16:31
A crown of adorning, is a hoary head, in the way of righteousness, it should be found.

Provided

2 Samuel 17:27
And it came to pass, when David entered Mahanaim, that Shobi son of Nahash of Rabbah of the sons of Ammon and Machir son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite, of Rogelim,

For he was

1 Samuel 25:2
Now there was, a man, in Maon, whose cattle were in Carmel, and, the man, was exceeding great, and, he, had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats, - and so it was, that he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Job 1:3
And his substance was - seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a body of servants exceeding large, - thus was that man the greatest of all the sons of the East.