Then your handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be favorable: for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: therefore the LORD your God will be with you.
To present this manner of speech has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
And the king said, And where is your master’s son? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he remains at Jerusalem: for he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore to me the kingdom of my father.
Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, yours are all that belonged to Mephi-bosheth. And Ziba said, I humbly plead with you that I may find grace in your sight, my lord, O king.
And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went over Jordan before the king.
And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame in his feet.
Beware every one of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother: for every brother will completely drive you away, and every neighbor will walk with slanders.
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God: nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.