MEPHIBOSHETH

Passages on this topic · 26

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 9:1

  David said, “Is there yet any who is left of Saul’s house, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”

• 2 Samuel 9:2

  There was of Saul’s house a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David; and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” He said, “I am your servant.”

• 2 Samuel 9:3

  The king said, “Is there not yet any of Saul’s house, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “Jonathan still has a son, who is lame in his feet.”

• 2 Samuel 9:4

  The king said to him, “Where is he?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.”

• 2 Samuel 9:5

  Then king David sent, and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar.

• 2 Samuel 9:6

  Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on his face, and showed respect. David said, “Mephibosheth.” He answered, “Behold, your servant!”

• 2 Samuel 9:7

  David said to him, “Don’t be afraid of him; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your father. You will eat bread at my table continually.”

• 2 Samuel 9:9

  Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.

• 2 Samuel 9:10

  Till the land for him, you, your sons, and your servants. Bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have bread to eat; but Mephibosheth your master’s son will always eat bread at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

• 2 Samuel 16:1

  When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

• 2 Samuel 16:2

  The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?” Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”

• 2 Samuel 16:3

  The king said, “Where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”

• 2 Samuel 16:4

  Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”

• 2 Samuel 19:24

  Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither groomed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

• 2 Samuel 19:25

  When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

• 2 Samuel 19:26

  He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride on it, and go with the king; because your servant is lame.

• 2 Samuel 19:27

  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.

• 2 Samuel 19:28

  For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more to the king?”

• 2 Samuel 19:29

  The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

• 2 Samuel 19:30

  Mephibosheth said to the king, “Yes, let him take all, because my lord the king has come in peace to his own house.”

• 2 Samuel 21:7

  But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

• 2 Samuel 21:8

  But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

• 1 Chronicles 8:34

  The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

• 1 Chronicles 9:40

  The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.