and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
Parallel translations
- WEB He has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is as an angel of God. Do therefore what is good in your eyes.
- KJV And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.
- NKJV And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king, but my lord the king is like the angel of God. Therefore do what is good in your eyes.
- NASB Furthermore, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.
- NLT Ziba has slandered me by saying that I refused to come. But I know that my lord the king is like an angel of God, so do what you think is best.
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Quick answer
Mephibosheth said Ziba had slandered him, yet he trusted David, likened to an angel of God, to do what was right. It matters because he committed his cause to the king's wise judgment.
Overview
Rather than demanding vindication, Mephibosheth entrusted his case to David's discernment, comparing the king to an angel of God. His humility and faith in the king's justice stand in contrast to Ziba's grasping deceit. The verse models quiet trust in a righteous king's verdict, a posture fitting toward the Lord Himself.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Sam 14:20Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
- 2 Sam 14:17And now your servant says, ‘May the word of my lord the king bring me rest, for my lord the king is able to discern good and evil, just like the angel of God. May the LORD your God be with you.’”
- 2 Sam 16:3“Where is your master’s grandson?” asked the king. And Ziba answered, “Indeed, he is staying in Jerusalem, for he has said, ‘Today, the house of Israel will restore to me the kingdom of my grandfather.’”
- 1 Sam 29:9Achish replied, “I know that you are as pleasing in my sight as an angel of God. But the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He must not go into battle with us.’
- Jer 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
- Exod 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Ps 101:5Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
- Ps 15:3who has no slander on his tongue, who does no harm to his neighbor, who casts no scorn on his friend,
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