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2 Samuel 9 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:1 - Then David asked, "Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - Now there was a servant from Saul's house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, "Are you Ziba?" He replied, "At your service."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king asked, "Is there not someone left from Saul's family, that I may extend God's kindness to him?" Ziba said to the king, "One of Jonathan's sons is left; both of his feet are crippled."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 - The king asked him, "Where is he?" Ziba told the king, "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:5 - So King David had him brought from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:6 - 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."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - 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."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, "Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:10 - 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.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba's household were Mephibosheth's servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:13 - Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, for he was a regular guest at the king's table. But both his feet were crippled.
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