2 Samuel 9:5-13 ▼

5 So King David had him brought from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.

6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground. David said, |Mephibosheth?| He replied, |Yes, at your service.|

7 David said to him, |Don't be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.|

8 Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, |Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?|

9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's attendant, and said to him, |Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master's grandson.

10 You will cultivate the land for him--you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce and it will be food for your master's grandson to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.| (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

11 Ziba said to the king, |Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do.| So Mephibosheth was a regular guest at David's table, just as though he were one of the king's sons.

12 Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba's household were Mephibosheth's servants.

13 Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, for he was a regular guest at the king's table. But both his feet were crippled.