8 Then he bowed himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such aa dead dog as I?”
9 And the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, a“I have given to your master’s son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
10 You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son ashall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had bfifteen sons and twenty servants.
11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do.” “As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at1 my table like one of the king’s sons.”
12 Mephibosheth had a young son awhose name was Micha. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.
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