2 Samuel 9:2

9:2 Now there was a servant from Saul’s house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, “Are you Ziba?” He replied, “At your service.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ²  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ³  and it will be ⁴  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁵  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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¹ tn Heb “your servant.”

² tn Heb “work.”

³ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

⁴ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

⁵ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”