2 Samuel 16:4
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Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” “I humbly bow,” Ziba said. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king.”
Read 2 Samuel 16:4 Using Other Translations
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, thine are all that pertained unto Mephibosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king.
Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours." And Ziba said, "I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king."
“In that case,” the king told Ziba, “I give you everything Mephibosheth owns.” “I bow before you,” Ziba replied. “May I always be pleasing to you, my lord the king.”
What does 2 Samuel 16:4 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
2 Samuel 16:4
Then said the king to Ziba, behold, thine [are] all
that
[pertaineth] to Mephibosheth
Being forfeited to the king by an overt act of treason as they
had been before by the rebellion of Ishbosheth, but had been
graciously restored to Mephibosheth; and had it been true what
Ziba suggested, it would have been a righteous thing to have
taken them from him; though it seems to be too hasty a step in
David to take and give them away without further inquiry:
and Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee [that] I may find
grace in thy
sight, my lord, O king;
he had found favour already, but seems not to be sufficiently
thankful for it, and satisfied with it, but craved more and other
favours, when opportunity should serve.
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