2 Samuel 9:6-10
New English Translation
6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground.[a] David said, “Mephibosheth?” He replied, “Yes, at your service.”[b]
7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will give back to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will be a regular guest at my table.”[c] 8 Then Mephibosheth[d] bowed and said, “Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?”[e]
9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s attendant, and said to him, “Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master’s grandson. 10 You will cultivate[f] the land for him—you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce[g] and it will be[h] food for your master’s grandson to eat.[i] But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
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- 2 Samuel 9:6 tn Heb “he fell on his face and bowed down.”
- 2 Samuel 9:6 tn Heb “Look, your servant.”
- 2 Samuel 9:7 tn Heb “and you will eat food at my table continually.”
- 2 Samuel 9:8 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Samuel 9:8 tn Heb “What is your servant, that you turn to a dead dog which is like me?”
- 2 Samuel 9:10 tn Heb “work.”
- 2 Samuel 9:10 tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.
- 2 Samuel 9:10 tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.
- 2 Samuel 9:10 tn Heb “and he will eat it.”
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