2 Samuel 9:5-13

5 Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

6 ¹Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, came to David and ²fell on his face and prostrated himself. And David said, "Mephibosheth." And he said, "Here is your servant!"

7 David said to him, "Do not fear, for ³I will surely show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and ⁴will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul; and ⁵you shall eat at my table regularly."

8 Again he prostrated himself and said, "What is your servant, that you should regard ⁶a dead dog like me?"

9 Then the king called Saul's servant Ziba and said to him, "⁷All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master's grandson.

10 "You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master's grandson may have food; nevertheless ⁸Mephibosheth your master's grandson ⁹shall eat at my table regularly." Now Ziba had fifteen * sons and twenty servants.

11 Then Ziba said to the king, "According ¹⁰to all that my lord the king commands his servant so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons.

12 Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

13 So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for ¹¹he ate at the king's table regularly. Now ¹²he was lame in both feet.

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2 Samuel 9:5-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 9

This chapter relates David's inquiry after the posterity of Saul, whether any were living and where they were, 2Sa 9:1-4; and on inquiry being informed of one, he sent for him, and kindly received him, 2Sa 9:5-8; and restored to him the land of his fathers, and appointed a person to till it for him, and bring him the fruits of it, and maintained him at his own table, 2Sa 9:9-13.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 12

1. 2 Samuel 16:4; 2 Samuel 19:24-30
2. 1 Samuel 25:23
3. 2 Samuel 9:1, 3
4. 2 Samuel 12:8
5. 2 Samuel 19:28; 1 Kings 2:7; 2 Kings 25:29
6. 2 Samuel 16:9; 1 Samuel 24:14
7. 2 Samuel 16:4; 2 Samuel 19:29
8. 2 Sam 9:7, 11, 13
9. 2 Samuel 19:28; 1 Kings 2:7
10. 2 Samuel 16:1-4; 2 Samuel 19:24-30
11. 2 Samuel 9:7, 11
12. 2 Samuel 9:3

Footnotes 6

[a]. Lit "field"
[b]. Lit "father"
[c]. Lit "eat bread"
[d]. Lit "son"
[e]. Lit "eat bread"
[f]. Lit "my"