10:009:005 Then king David sent, and fetched him out
of the house of
Machir,
the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.
10:009:006 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan,
the son of Saul,
was
come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence.
And
David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold
thy
servant!
10:009:007 And David said unto him, Fear not:
for I will surely shew thee
kindness
for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore
thee
all
the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread
at
my
table continually.
10:009:008 And he bowed himself, and said, What is
thy servant, that thou
shouldest
look upon such a dead dog as I am?
10:009:009 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s
servant, and said unto
him,
I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained
to
Saul
and to all his house.
10:009:010 Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants,
shall till the
land
for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy
master’s
son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy
master’s
son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba
had
fifteen
sons and twenty servants.
10:009:011 Then said Ziba unto the king, According
to all that my lord
the
king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant
do.
As
for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my
table,
as
one of the king’s sons.
10:009:012 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose
name was Micha. And
all
that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto
Mephibosheth.
10:009:013 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem:
for he did eat continually
at
the king’s table; and was lame on both his feet.
10:010:001 And it came to pass after this, that the
king of the children
of
Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
10:010:002 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto
Hanun the son of
Nahash,
as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David
sent
to
comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father.
And
David’s
servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
10:010:003 And the princes of the children of Ammon
said unto Hanun their
lord,
Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that
he
hath
sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent
his
servants
unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and
to
overthrow it?
10:010:004 Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants,
and shaved off the one
half
of their beards, and cut off their garments in the
middle,
even to their buttocks, and sent them away.


