Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Can i discern
Taste
A burden
Bible References
Can i discern
Job 6:30
Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern destructive malice?
Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food belongs to mature people. It belongs to those who by reason of use have their senses trained to know the difference between good and evil.
1 Peter 2:3
You have tasted that the Lord is kind.
Taste
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Remember your Creator (Hebrew: Bara', plural, Creators denotes majesty) (Ge 1:26) in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near. You will say: I have no pleasure in them.
I hear
Ezra 2:65
As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.
Nehemiah 7:67
As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven. They had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.
Exodus 2:8
Please do, she answered. So the girl went and brought the baby's own mother.
Exodus 12:4
A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.
A burden
2 Samuel 13:25
The king answered: No, my son. It would be too much trouble for you if we all went. Absalom insisted, but the king would not give in. So he asked Absalom to leave.
2 Samuel 15:33
David told him: You might slow me down if you come with me.