2 Samuel 9:8-10

Good News Translation

⁸ Mephibosheth bowed again and said, “I am no better than a dead dog, sir! Why should you be so good to me?”

⁹ Then the king called Ziba, Saul's servant, and said, “I am giving Mephibosheth, your master's grandson, everything that belonged to Saul and his family. ¹⁰ You, your sons, and your servants will farm the land for your master Saul's family and bring in the harvest, to provide food for them. But Mephibosheth himself will always be a guest at my table.” (Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)