⁷“Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan.^m I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.ⁿ”

⁸Mephibosheth^o bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog^p like me?”

⁹Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family. ¹⁰You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson^q may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

¹¹Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s^a table like one of the king’s sons.^r

¹²Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba’s household were servants of Mephibosheth.^s ¹³And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table; he was lame in both feet.

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Footnotes

aSeptuagint; Hebrew my

Cross references

gSee 1 Sa 20:14–17, 42; See 23:18
h 2 Sa 16:1–4; 19:17, 26, 29
i 1 Ch 8:34; 1 Sa 20:14
jSee Lev 21:18
k 2 Sa 17:27–29
lSee Ge 37:7
mSee 1 Sa 20:14–15
nver 13; 2 Sa 19:28; 21:7; 1 Ki 2:7; 2 Ki 25:29; Jer 52:33
oSee 2 Sa 4:4
pSee 2 Sa 3:8
q 2 Sa 16:3
r Job 36:7; Ps 113:8
sSee 2 Sa 4:4