2Sa 19:35, Est 1:3, 11 | ESV | STEP | I am this day eighty years old . Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not ? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks ? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women ? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king ?

c ch. 2:18; [Gen. 40:20; 1 Kgs. 3:15; Mark 6:21]

2 Samuel 19:35

35 I am this day ^aeighty years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or what he drinks? Can I still listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be ^ban added burden to my lord the king?

Esther 1:3

3 in the third year of his reign ^che gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,

Esther 1:11

11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with ^dher royal crown, ^{▼▼Or headdress} in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.