2 Samuel 16:1-4

David and Ziba

1When David had passed a little beyond athe summit, bZiba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, ca hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine. 2And the king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, d“The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on, the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine for those who efaint in the wilderness to drink.” 3And the king said, “And where is your master’s son?” fZiba said to the king, “Behold, he remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back the kingdom of my father.’” 4Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” And Ziba said, “I pay homage; let me ever find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”

2 Samuel 19:17

17And with him were a thousand men from Benjamin. And gZiba the servant of the house of Saul, with his fifteen sons and his twenty servants, rushed down to the Jordan before the king,

2 Samuel 19:27-29

27 hHe has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is ilike the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you. 28For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but jyou set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?” 29And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”
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