2 Samuel 9:8-11

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⁸ Mephibosheth fell to the ground before the king. “Should the king show kindness to a dead dog like me?” he exclaimed.

⁹ Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba. “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family,” he said. ^10-11 “You and your sons and servants are to farm the land for him, to produce food for his family; but he will live here with me.”

Ziba, who had fifteen sons and twenty servants, replied, “Sir, I will do all you have commanded.”

And from that time on, Mephibosheth ate regularly with King David, as though he were one of his own sons.