2 Samuel 4:4

4:4 Now Saul’s son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. ¹  Mephibosheth was his name.

2 Samuel 9:6

9:6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground. ²  David said, “Mephibosheth?” He replied, “Yes, at your service.” ³ 

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ⁴  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ⁵  and it will be ⁶  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁷  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 19:24-30

19:24 Now Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, ⁸  came down to meet the king. From the day the king had left until the day he safely ⁹  returned, Mephibosheth ¹⁰  had not cared for his feet ¹¹  nor trimmed ¹²  his mustache nor washed his clothes.

19:25 When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?” 19:26 He replied, “My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I ¹³  said, ‘Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,’ for I ¹⁴  am lame. 19:27 But my servant ¹⁵  has slandered me ¹⁶  to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems appropriate to you. 19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather ¹⁷  who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! ¹⁸  What further claim do I have to ask ¹⁹  the king for anything?”

19:29 Then the king replied to him, “Why should you continue speaking like this? You and Ziba will inherit the field together.” 19:30 Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him have ²⁰  the whole thing! My lord the king has returned safely ²¹  to his house!”

[4:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and was lame.”

[9:6]  ² tn Heb “he fell on his face and bowed down.”

[9:6]  ³ tn Heb “Look, your servant.”

[9:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “work.”

[9:10]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

[9:10]  ⁶ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

[9:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

[19:24]  ⁸ tn Heb “son.”

[19:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “in peace.” So also in v. 31.

[19:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Mephibosheth) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:24]  ¹¹ tn Heb “done his feet.”

[19:24]  ¹² tn Heb “done.”

[19:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:26]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:27]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and he”; the referent (the servant) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:27]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “your servant.”

[19:28]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “father.”

[19:28]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”

[19:28]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to cry out to.”

[19:30]  ²⁰ tn Heb “take.”

[19:30]  ²¹ tn Heb “in peace.”