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2 Samuel 9:4-9 New International Version Anglicized (NIVUK)

4. ‘Where is he?’ the king asked.Ziba answered, ‘He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.’

5. So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.

6. When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honour.David said, ‘Mephibosheth!’‘At your service,’ he replied.

7. ‘Don’t be afraid,’ David said to him, ‘for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.’

8. Mephibosheth bowed down and said, ‘What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?’

9. Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s steward, and said to him, ‘I have given your master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

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