2 Samuel 19:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ Mephibosheth answered, “My lord and king, my servant tricked me. I am crippled so I said to my servant, Ziba, ‘Go put a saddle on a donkey. Then I will ride on it and go with the king.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ He said, My lord O king, my servant [Ziba] deceived me; for I said, Saddle me the donkey that I may ride on it and go to the king, for your servant is lame [but he took the donkey and left without me].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.

Common English Bible

²⁶ “My master and king,” Mephibosheth answered, “my servant abandoned me! Because your servant is lame, I asked my servant, ‘Saddle a donkey for me so I can ride and go to the king.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ And in response, he said: "My lord the king, my servant spurned me. And I, your servant, spoke to him so that he might saddle a donkey for me, and I might climb upon it and go with the king. For I, your servant, am lame.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And he answering said: My lord, O king, my servant despised me. For I thy servant spoke to him to saddle me an ass, that I might get on and go with the king: for I thy servant am lame.

2 Samuel 19:26 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 19:17

About 1,000 people from the family group of Benjamin came with Shimei. Ziba the servant from Saul’s family also came. Ziba brought his 15 sons and 20 servants with him. All these people hurried to the Jordan River to meet King David.

2 Samuel 4:4

Saul’s son Jonathan had a son named Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth was five years old when the news came from Jezreel that Saul and Jonathan had been killed. The woman who cared for Mephibosheth {was scared that the enemy was coming, so she} picked him up and ran away. But while running away, she dropped the boy. And he became crippled in both feet.

2 Samuel 9:3

The king said, “Is there any person left in Saul’s family? I want to show God’s kindness to this person.”