2 Samuel 9:13

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually."
  • 2 Sam 9:10-11 : 10 You 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. 11 Then said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.
  • 2 Sam 9:3 : 3 The 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.

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  • 2 Sam 9:1-12
    12 verses
    84%

    1David said, Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

    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!

    7David said to him, "Don't be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat bread at my table continually."

    8He did obeisance, and said, "What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?"

    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 said Ziba to the king, According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as 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.

  • 2 Sam 4:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).

    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.

  • 2 Sam 19:24-26
    3 verses
    75%

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

    25It happened, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?

    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 19:28-30
    3 verses
    73%

    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 speak you 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 is come in peace to his own house.

  • 2 Sam 16:1-4
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    70%

    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.

    2The king said to Ziba, What do you mean by these? Ziba said, The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

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

    4Then said the king 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.

  • 2 Sam 21:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

    8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

  • 2 Sam 19:33
    64%

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

  • 1 Kgs 2:7
    63%

    7But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

  • 1 Sam 9:22-24
    3 verses
    63%

    22Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest-chamber, and made them sit in the best place among those who were invited, who were about thirty persons.

    23Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you.

    24The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. [Samuel] said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat; because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

  • 1 Sam 20:24-25
    2 verses
    63%

    24So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.

    25The king sat on his seat, as at other times, even on the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.

  • 1 Chr 9:37-38
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    63%

    37and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

    38Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.

  • 1 Kgs 13:15
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    15Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

  • Acts 14:8
    62%

    8At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

  • 1 Sam 13:16
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    16Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

  • 1 Chr 8:32
    62%

    32Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.

  • 1 Chr 9:3
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    3In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

  • Jer 52:33
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    33and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

  • Luke 14:13
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    13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

  • 1 Chr 9:40
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    40The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal; and Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

  • 2 Kgs 25:29
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    29and changed his prison garments. [Jehoiachin] ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

  • 1 Kgs 13:19-20
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    19So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

    20It happened, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back;

  • 1 Kgs 2:38
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    38Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will your servant do. Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

  • Judg 1:7
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    7Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [their food] under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

  • 2 Sam 19:17
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    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.

  • Josh 13:18
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    18and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,