2 Samuel 19:24–30

David and Mephibosheth Meet

²⁴Now ^eMephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king. And he had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his mustache, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he returned in peace. ²⁵So it was, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, ^f“Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

²⁶And he answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go to the king,’ because your servant is lame. ²⁷And ^ghe has slandered your servant to my lord the king, ^hbut my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes. ²⁸For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. ⁱYet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to ⁶cry out anymore to the king?”

²⁹So the king said to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Ziba divide the land.’ ”

³⁰Then Mephibosheth said to the king, “Rather, let him take it all, inasmuch as my lord the king has come back in peace to his own house.”