26. He answered, “My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for your servant said to him, ‘I will saddle a donkey for myself, that I may ride on it and go with the king.’ For your servant is lame.
27. He has slandered your servant to my lord the king. But my lord the king is like the angel of God; do therefore what seems good to you.
28. For all my father’s house were but men doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to cry to the king?”
29. And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”
30. And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has come safely home.”
31. Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, and he went on with the king to the Jordan, to escort him over the Jordan.
32. Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old. He had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man.
33. And the king said to Barzillai, “Come over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”
34. But Barzillai said to the king, “How many years have I still to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?