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撒母耳记下 9:9

王把掃羅的僕人洗巴召來,對他說:“我已經把屬於掃羅,以及他全家所有的一切,給了你主人的孫子。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Friendship;   Hospitality;   Kindness;   Mephibosheth;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Mephibosheth;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Mephibosheth;   Ziba;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Vengeance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Samuel, Books of;   Ziba;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mephibosheth ;   Ziba ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jonathan;   Mephibosheth;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Zi'ba;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Master;   Mephibosheth;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hammurabi;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 召 了 扫 罗 的 仆 人 洗 巴 来 , 对 他 说 : 我 已 将 属 扫 罗 和 他 的 一 切 家 产 都 赐 给 你 主 人 的 儿 子 了 。

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

I have given: 2 Samuel 16:4, 2 Samuel 19:29, 1 Samuel 9:1, Isaiah 32:8

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 16:1 - Ziba 2 Samuel 16:3 - where is Luke 22:30 - eat

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But I will make an agreement with you—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives will all go into the boat.
Genesis 9:7
"As for you, Noah, I want you and your family to have many children, to grow in number on the earth, and to become many."
Genesis 9:8
Then God said to Noah and his sons,
Genesis 9:9
"Now I am making my agreement with you and your people who will live after you,
Genesis 9:10
and with every living thing that is with you—the birds, the tame and the wild animals, and with everything that came out of the boat with you—with every living thing on earth.
Genesis 9:11
I make this agreement with you: I will never again destroy all living things by a flood. A flood will never again destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:17
So God said to Noah, "The rainbow is a sign of the agreement that I made with all living things on earth."
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.
Jeremiah 33:20
"This is what the Lord says: I have an agreement with day and night that they will always come at the right times. If you could change that agreement,
Romans 1:3
The Good News is about God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. As a man, he was born from the family of David. But through the Spirit of holiness he was declared to be God's Son with great power by rising from the dead.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant,.... Who had been his servant:

and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son; meaning either, as some, the son of Mephibosheth, Micha after mentioned; or rather Mephibosheth himself, the grandson of Saul, whose servant Ziba had been:

all that pertained to Saul, and to all his house; all his paternal estate, or what he had acquired, or in any wise belonged to him and his family; which David had in possession, and which he readily and cheerfully delivered up to Mephibosheth, having so great a regard to the memory of his father.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Saul’s servant - Josephus calls him one of Saul’s freedmen. The difference this would make in Ziba’s position would only be that instead of paying in the fruits of the confiscated land to David, he would have to pay them to Mephiboseth.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 9:9. I have given unto thy master's son — Unless Ziba had been servant of Jonathan, this seems to refer to Micha, son of Mephibosheth, and so some understand it; but it is more likely that Mephibosheth is meant, who is called son of Saul instead of grandson. Yet it is evident enough that the produce of the land went to the support of Micha, (see 2 Samuel 9:10), for the father was provided for at the table of David; but all the patrimony belonged to Mephibosheth.


 
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