2 Samuel 19:25

World English Bible (2000)

It happened, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?"

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  • 2 Sam 16:17 : 17 Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"

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  • 2 Sam 19:24
    86%

    24Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

  • 2 Sam 19:26
    83%

    26He answered, "My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

  • 2 Sam 19:28-31
    4 verses
    79%

    28For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?"

    29The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."

    30Mephibosheth said to the king, "Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house."

    31Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

  • 2 Sam 9:2-6
    5 verses
    79%

    2There was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "Your servant is he."

    3The king said, "Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?" Ziba said to the king, "Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame of his feet."

    4The king said to him, "Where is he?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar."

    5Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

    6Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and did obeisance. David said, "Mephibosheth." He answered, "Behold, your servant!"

  • 2 Sam 16:3-5
    3 verses
    77%

    3The king said, "Where is your master's son?" Ziba said to the king, "Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.'"

    4Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that pertains to Mephibosheth is yours." Ziba said, "I do obeisance. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king."

    5When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of the house of Saul came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out, and cursed still as he came.

  • 2 Sam 9:9-13
    5 verses
    76%

    9Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given to your master's son.

    10You shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you shall bring in [the fruits], that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth your master's son shall eat bread always at my table." Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

    11Then Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so your shall servant do." So Mephibosheth ate at the king's table, like one of the king's sons.

    12Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. All that lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

    13So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem; for he ate continually at the king's table. He was lame in both his feet.

  • 2 Sam 19:15-20
    6 verses
    76%

    15So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

    16Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

    17There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.

    18A ferry boat went to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan.

    19He said to the king, "Don't let my lord impute iniquity to me, neither do you remember that which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

    20For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore, behold, I have come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king."

  • 2 Sam 15:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.

    20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."

  • 2 Sam 19:33
    73%

    33The king said to Barzillai, "Come over with me, and I will sustain you with me in Jerusalem."

  • 2 Sam 4:4
    73%

    4Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son who was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the news came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

  • 1 Sam 15:19
    72%

    19Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but took the spoils, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"

  • 2 Sam 21:7
    72%

    7But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • 2 Sam 19:36
    71%

    36Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king. Why should the king repay me with such a reward?

  • 1 Chr 19:5
    71%

    5Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return."

  • 2 Sam 16:1
    71%

    1When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

  • 2 Sam 15:9
    71%

    9The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.

  • 2 Sam 15:17
    71%

    17The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.

  • 1 Sam 20:29
    71%

    29He said, 'Please let me go, for our family has a sacrifice in the city. My brother has commanded me to be there. Now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the king's table."

  • 1 Kgs 2:39-41
    3 verses
    70%

    39It happened at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Behold, your servants are in Gath."

    40Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

    41It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

  • 2 Sam 3:24
    70%

    24Then Joab came to the king, and said, "What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?

  • 2 Sam 1:2
    70%

    2it happened on the third day, that behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul, with his clothes torn, and earth on his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.

  • 2 Sam 16:17
    70%

    17Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"

  • 2 Sam 19:38
    70%

    38The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you."

  • 1 Sam 20:27
    70%

    27It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?"

  • 1 Sam 13:11
    70%

    11Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    70%

    17Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

  • 1 Sam 16:19
    70%

    19Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

  • 1 Kgs 2:43
    70%

    43Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have instructed you with?"

  • 1 Sam 11:5
    70%

    5Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.