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 nine years, and then he died.
Genesis 9:29
So that all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and then he died.
Genesis 25:7
These are the days of the life of Abraham which he lived: a hundred and seventy five years
Genesis 47:28
Moreover, Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so that the whole age of Jacob was a hundred and forty seven years.
Genesis 50:26
And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
Deuteronomy 34:7
And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, and yet his eyes were not dim nor his cheeks abated.
Psalm 90:3
Thou turnest man to destruction; Again, thou sayest, "Come again, ye children of men."
Proverbs 16:31
Age is a crown of worship, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Provided

2 Samuel 17:27
And when David was come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash out of Rabbah, the city of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel out of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite out of Rogelim,

For he was

1 Samuel 25:2
And there was a man in Maon whose cattle was in Carmel, and the man was exceeding mighty, and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
Job 1:3
His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.