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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1David asked, "Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake?" |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Now there was a servant of Saul's household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" "At your service," he replied. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The king asked, "Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God's kindness?" Ziba answered the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Where is he?" the king asked. Ziba answered, "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, "Mephibosheth!" "At your service," he replied. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Don't be afraid," David said to him, "for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Mephibosheth bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.) |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 table like one of the king's sons. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba's household were servants of Mephibosheth. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's table; he was lame in both feet. |
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