I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan! Very pleasing were you to me. Wonderful was your love to me more than the love of women.
2 Samuel 19:30 - Tree of Life Version Then the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decreed, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Mephibosheth said to the king, Oh, let him take it all, since my lord the king has returned home in safety and peace. American Standard Version (1901) And Mephibosheth said unto the king, yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come in peace unto his own house. Common English Bible Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him take all of it, since my master and king has come home safely.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Mephibosheth responded to the king, "But now let him take it all, since my lord the king has been returned peacefully into his own house." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all; forasmuch as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house. |
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan! Very pleasing were you to me. Wonderful was your love to me more than the love of women.
accompanied by 1,000 men of Benjamin. Also Ziba the servant of Saul’s household, with his 15 sons and 20 slaves, rushed to the Jordan ahead of the king.
For all my father’s household deserved only death at the hand of my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those eating at your own table! What right do I have yet to cry to the king?”
“So let him take all,” Mephibosheth replied to the king, “as long as my lord the king has come back to his own home in shalom.”
Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his household I have given to your master’s son.
However, I don’t consider my life of any value, except that I might finish my course and the office I received from the Lord Yeshua, to declare the Good News of the grace of God.
My eager expectation and hope is that in no way will I be put to shame, but that with complete boldness Messiah will even now, as always, be exalted in my body—whether through life or through death.