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 sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 9:29
And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.
Genesis 25:7
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred three score and fifteen years.
Genesis 47:28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years.
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 34:7
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Psalm 90:3
You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
Proverbs 16:31
White hair is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.

Provided

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

For he was

1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Job 1:3
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.