Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother — But behold, your servant Chimham, let him go over with my lord the king — and do for him what seems good to you — Barzillai asks to return to his home city to die near his parents' grave. Yet he offers his son Chimham to serve David, transferring his service relationship to the next generation. His decision to end his life in his own place while advancing his son's service shows both personal contentment and dynastic foresight.

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