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.

¹⁰ You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson^(A) may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

²⁶ He said, “My lord the king, since I your servant am lame,^(A) I said, ‘I will have my donkey saddled and will ride on it, so I can go with the king.’ But Ziba^(B) my servant betrayed me.

²⁷ And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like an angel^(A) of God; so do whatever you wish.