Topic
ZIBA
(King Saul' s servant)
Passages on this topic · 9
- 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 19:17
There were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of Saul’s house, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
- 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.”
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).