2 Samuel 19:28

28 Todos mis parientes y yo solo podíamos esperar la muerte de su parte, mi señor, ¡pero en cambio me honró al permitirme comer a su propia mesa! ¿Qué más puedo pedir?

2 Samuel 19:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 19:28

For all [of] my, father's house were but dead men before my
lord the king
Or "men of death" ^F13; worthy of death, not on account of Saul's persecution, for which his family did not deserve to suffer; rather for the attempt of Ishbosheth to get the kingdom from him, which might be deemed treason, and so the family was tainted for it; though the sense may be only this, that their lives lay at his mercy, and that if he had dealt with rigour and severity towards them, as was usual for princes to do towards the family of their predecessors, who had any claim to the kingdom, put them to death, this would have been their case:

yet didst thou set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table;
which was showing him great kindness, and doing him great honour:

what right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
to ask any favour of him, or make any complaint to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (twm yvna) "viris mortis", Montanus.

2 Samuel 19:28 In-Context

26 Mefiboset contestó:
—Mi señor el rey, mi siervo Siba me engañó. Le dije: “Ensilla mi burro
para que pueda ir con el rey”. Pues como usted sabe, soy lisiado.

27 Siba me calumnió cuando dijo que me negué a venir. Pero sé que mi señor el rey es como un ángel de Dios, así que haga como mejor le parezca.

28 Todos mis parientes y yo solo podíamos esperar la muerte de su parte, mi señor, ¡pero en cambio me honró al permitirme comer a su propia mesa! ¿Qué más puedo pedir?

29 —Ya dijiste suficiente —respondió David—. He decidido que tú y Siba se dividan tu tierra en partes iguales.

30 —Désela toda a él —dijo Mefiboset—. ¡Estoy satisfecho con que haya vuelto a salvo, mi señor el rey!