撒母耳记下 9:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你和你的兒子，以及你的僕人，都要替他耕種田地；你要把所收穫的拿來，供他食用。米非波設要常常與我同席吃飯。”洗巴有十五個兒子，二十個僕人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 和 你 的 众 子 、 仆 人 要 为 你 主 人 的 儿 子 米 非 波 设 耕 种 田 地 ， 把 所 产 的 拿 来 供 他 食 用 ； 他 却 要 常 与 我 同 席 吃 饭 。 洗 巴 有 十 五 个 儿 子 ， 二 十 个 仆 人 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ Then King David called Saul's servant Ziba. David said to him, "I have given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family. ¹⁰ You, your sons, and your servants will farm the land and harvest the crops. Then your family will have food to eat. But Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, will always eat at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.) ¹¹ Ziba said to King David, "I, your servant, will do everything my master, the king, commands me." So Mephibosheth ate at David's table as if he were one of the king's sons. ¹² Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. Everyone in Ziba's family became Mephibosheth's servants. ¹³ Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king's table. And he was crippled in both feet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall eat bread: The eating at courts was of two kinds; the one public and ceremonious, the other private. Sir John Chardin understands those passages which speak of a right to eat at the royal table, as pointing out a right to a seat there, when the repast was public and solemn. So in a manuscript Note on 1 Kings 2:7, he tells us that it was to be understood of the majilis, (the term for an assembly of lords, or a public feast), and not of the daily and ordinary repast. Hence, though Mephibosheth was to eat at all public times at the king's table, yet he would want the produce of his lands for food at other times, which it was necessary for Ziba to understand. 2 Samuel 9:7, 2 Samuel 9:11-13, 2 Samuel 19:28, 2 Kings 25:29, Luke 14:15

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 9:13 - he did eat 2 Samuel 16:3 - where is 2 Samuel 19:17 - Ziba 2 Samuel 21:7 - Mephibosheth 1 Chronicles 8:34 - Meribbaal Jeremiah 52:34 - there was Luke 22:30 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild and tame animals with him in the boat. He made a wind blow over the earth, and the water went down.

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Have many children; grow in number and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:5
I will demand blood for life. I will demand the life of any animal that kills a person, and I will demand the life of anyone who takes another person's life.

Genesis 9:6
"Whoever kills a human being will be killed by a human being, because God made humans in his own image.

Genesis 9:15
I will remember my agreement between me and you and every living thing. Floods will never again destroy all life on the earth.

Genesis 9:16
When the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and I will remember the agreement that continues forever between me and every living thing on the earth."

Psalms 145:9
The Lord is good to everyone; he is merciful to all he has made.

Jonah 4:11
Then shouldn't I show concern for the great city Nineveh, which has more than one hundred twenty thousand people who do not know right from wrong, and many animals, too?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou therefore, thy sons, and thy servants,.... Which were many, and whose numbers are after given:

shall till the land for him; manure it, plough it, sow it, and reap it:

and thou shall bring in [the fruits]; the corn, and oil, and wine, the land produces:

that thy master's son may have food to eat; meaning either Micha, the son of Mephibosheth, since Mephibosheth seems to be distinguished from him, and opposed to him in the next clause: and who would stand in no need of food from any other quarter, being a guest at the king's table continually; or else Mephibosheth, who by this means would have a sufficiency for his son and servants, and in which Ziba's family and servants would have a share:

but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat always at my table; wherefore the land was to be tilled not for him personally, but for his family, and for what uses he should think fit to put the produce of it to:

now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants: who were enough to cultivate a considerable quantity of land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fifteen sons ... - See 2 Samuel 19:17, marginal reference.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 9:10. Thou therefore, and thy sons - shall till the land — It seems that Ziba and his family had the care of the whole estate, and cultivated it at their own expense, yielding the half of the produce to the family of Mephibosheth. Ziba was properly the hind, whose duty and interest it was to take proper care of the ground, for the better it was cultivated the more it produced; and his half would consequently be the greater.