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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David and Mephibosheth</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David asked, &#8220;Is there anyone still left of the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan&#8217;s sake?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.9.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now there was a servant of Saul&#8217;s household named Ziba. They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, &#8220;Are you Ziba?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.9.2"><span class="content">&#8220;At your service,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.9.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The king asked, &#8220;Is there no one still alive from the house of Saul to whom I can show God&#8217;s kindness?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.9.3"><span class="content">Ziba answered the king, &#8220;There is still a son of Jonathan; he is lame in both feet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.9.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Where is he?&#8221; the king asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.9.4"><span class="content">Ziba answered, &#8220;He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.9.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.9.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.9.6"><span class="content">David said, &#8220;Mephibosheth!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.9.6"><span class="content">&#8220;At your service,&#8221; he replied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.9.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid,&#8221; David said to him, &#8220;for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.9.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Mephibosheth bowed down and said, &#8220;What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.9.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul&#8217;s steward, and said to him, &#8220;I have given your master&#8217;s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master&#8217;s grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.&#8221; (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.9.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Ziba said to the king, &#8220;Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.&#8221; So Mephibosheth ate at David&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">9:11 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">my</span></span></span><span class="content"> table like one of the king&#8217;s sons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.9.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba&#8217;s household were servants of Mephibosheth. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king&#8217;s table; he was lame in both feet.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Defeats the Ammonites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David thought, &#8220;I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.&#8221; So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.10.2"><span class="content">When David&#8217;s men came to the land of the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, &#8220;Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn&#8217;t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Hanun seized David&#8217;s envoys, shaved off half of each man&#8217;s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.10.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maakah with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from Tob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.10.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maakah were by themselves in the open country.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.10.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Joab said, &#8220;If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what is good in his sight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.10.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Hadadezer had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River; they went to Helam, with Shobak the commander of Hadadezer&#8217;s army leading them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan and went to Helam. The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David and fought against him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 19:18); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">horsemen</span></span></span><span class="content"> He also struck down Shobak the commander of their army, and he died there. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.10.19"><span class="content">So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.</span></span></div>
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