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10 You and your sons and servants are to farm the land for him to produce food for your master’s household.[a] But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will eat here at my table.” (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

11 Ziba replied, “Yes, my lord the king; I am your servant, and I will do all that you have commanded.” And from that time on, Mephibosheth ate regularly at David’s table,[b] like one of the king’s own sons.

12 Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. From then on, all the members of Ziba’s household were Mephibosheth’s servants.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:10 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads your master’s grandson.
  2. 9:11 As in Greek version; Hebrew reads my table.

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