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David's mercy towards Saul's house.
2 Samuel 9:3. And the king said, Is there any more of the house of Saul? I would show him God's mercy. And Ziba said to the king, There is a son of Jonathan lame in his feet.
"There is a son of Jonathan". See (2 Samuel 4:4).
2 Samuel 9:4. And the king said to him: Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel in Lodebar.
Lodevar and the villages of Mahirov are in the middle part of eastern Transjordan, near the former residence of Saul’s son Ishbosheth (2 Kings 2:8–9).
2 Samuel 9:8. And [Mephibosheth] bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?”
“For such a dead dog,” that is, for a weak and insignificant person. Wed. (1 Samuel 24:15,26:20).
2 Samuel 9:10. Therefore, you and your sons and your servants must cultivate the land for him, and provide its fruits, so that your master’s son may have bread to eat. Mephibosheth, the son of your master, will always eat at my table. Ziwa had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.
"Bread for Subsistence". In this case, we mean bread not so much in the literal sense as in the figurative sense of the word, i.e., material resources in general. Mephibosheth received his living at the court of David (cf. 2 Samuel 9:11,13).
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