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2 Samuel 9:4
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2 And there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was aZiba. So when they had called him to David, the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “At your service!”  
3 Then the king said, “Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, to whom I may show athe kindness of God?” And Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan who is blame in his feet.”  
4 So the king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “Indeed he is in the house of aMachir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”  
5 Then King David sent and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.
6 Now when aMephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself. Then David said, “Mephibosheth?” And he answered, “Here is your servant!”  
7 So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”
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.  
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2 Samuel 9:4

David reaped the fruit of his kindness to Mephibosheth, for, when he fled from Absalom, Machir, the son of Ammiel, was one of those who were most liberal in providing him and his army with necessaries (marginal reference). According to I Chronicles 3:5, Ammiel (called inversely Eliam, II Samuel 11:3) was the father of Bath-sheba. If this be the same Ammiel, Machir would be Bath-sheba' s brother. However, the name is not a very uncommon one (Numbers 13:12; I Chronicles 26:5, etc.).

Lo-debar - Evidently on the east of Jordan River, and in the neighborhood of Ish-bosheth' s capital, Mahanaim II Samuel 17:27, but not identified by any modern traveler. Thought by some, not improbably, to be the same as Debir Joshua 13:26.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Samuel 9:4:

Joshua 13:8-33
2 Samuel 4:4
2 Samuel 5:9

 

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