And he said, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said, I will saddle the ass for myself and ride on it and go with the king, for your servant is lame.
And a thousand men were with him from Benjamin; also Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him. And they had rushed over the Jordan before the king.
And to Jonathan the son of Saul was a son with crippled feet. He was a son of five years when the news of Saul and Jonathan came out of Jezreel; and his nurse lifted him up and fled; and it happened as she hurried to flee, that he fell and became lame; and his name was Mephibosheth.
And the king said, Is there not yet a man to the house of Saul, that I may do with him the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, There is yet a son to Jonathan, lame in both feet.