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2 Samuel 9:9

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Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given unto thy master’s son.

KJV

Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 9

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
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.

This site's exposition

all that pertained to Saul and to all his house

on 2 Samuel 9:9-10

David turns from Mephibosheth to Ziba and hands over the whole estate in one sentence, then sets Ziba's own household, fifteen sons and twenty servants, to work it. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the size of that household as the very equipage that will let Mephibosheth live as one of the king's sons rather than simply receive an income. Clarke notes that Ziba keeps half the produce for his labor, so the arrangement rewards the servant who told David the truth as well as the son David chose to honor.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

David's Kindness to Jonathan's Son. 1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? 2 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Be it ever so much, Mephibosheth is now master of it all. The management of the estate is committed to Ziba, who knew what it was and how to make the most of it, in whom, having been his father's servant, he might confide, and who, having a numerous family of sons and servants, had hands sufficient to be employed about it,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

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 2Sa 9:10), for the father was provided for at the table of David; but all the patrimony belonged to Mephibosheth.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקְרָ֣אand he summoned

    vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times

  • הַמֶּ֗לֶךְthe king

    hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

  • אֶל־<to>

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • צִיבָ֛אZiba

    tziva'H6717 →16 times

  • נַ֥עַר[the] servant of

    naarH5288 →239 times

  • שָׁא֖וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אֵלָ֑יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • כֹּל֩all

    kolH3605 →5413 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רthat

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • הָיָ֤הit belonged

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • לְשָׁאוּל֙to Saul

    leshaulH7586 →402 times

  • וּלְכָל־and to all

    ulekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • בֵּית֔וֹhousehold his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

  • נָתַ֖תִּיI have given

    natatiH5414 →2011 times

  • לְבֶן־to [the] son of

    leven-H1121 →4930 times

  • אֲדֹנֶֽיךָ׃master<s> your

    ʾadoneikhaH113 →333 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 16:4

    So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”

    it leads to

    • Proverbs 18:13

      He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Proverbs 18:17

      The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

    • Exodus 23:8

      Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

    • Deuteronomy 19:15

      A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or…

  • Through

    1 Samuel 9:1

    Now there was a Benjamite, a powerful man, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin.

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 14:51

      Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were sons of Abiel.

    • Acts 13:21

      Then the people asked for a king, and God gave them forty years under Saul son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin.

    • 1 Chronicles 9:36–39

      Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

    • 1 Samuel 25:2

      Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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