⁹ Then King David called Saul’s servant Ziba. David said to him, “I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his ·family [^Lhouse]. ¹⁰ You, your sons, and your servants will farm the land and harvest the crops. ·Then your family […so your master’s household] will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will always eat at my table.”

(Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.) ¹¹ Ziba said to King David, “I, your servant, will do everything my ·master [lord], the king, commands me.”

So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table as if he were one of the king’s sons.