2 Samuel 9:9-11

The Voice

⁹Then the king summoned Ziba, who had been Saul’s servant.

David: Everything that belonged to his grandfather Saul and his family I have returned to your master’s descendant. ¹⁰You, your sons, and your servants will work on his farms and bring in his produce, so that he and his household will have food. But Mephibosheth will always eat at my table.

Ziba had 15 sons and 20 servants.

Ziba: ¹¹I am your servant, and you are my lord and king. Whatever you command I will do.

From then on, Mephibosheth ate at the king’s table as though he were one of David’s own sons.

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