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Mephibosheth lame meaning9/24/2023 ![]() Then David said, ‘Mephibosheth?’ And he answered, ‘Here is your servant!’ So David said to him, “’Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather and you shall eat bread at my table continually.’ Then he bowed himself, and said, ‘What is your servant, that you should look upon such a dead dog as I?’ And the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, ‘I have given to your master’s son all that belonged to Saul and to all his house. Now when Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, had come to David, he fell on his face and prostrated himself. So, when they had called him to David, the king said to him, ‘Are you Ziba?”’ And he said, ‘At your service!’ Then the king said, ‘Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, to whom I may show the kindness of God?’ And Ziba said to the king, ‘There is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in his feet.’ So, the king said to him, ‘Where is he?’ And Ziba said to the king, ‘Indeed he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo Debar.’ Then King David sent and brought him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo Debar. “Now David said, ‘Is there still anyone who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?’ And there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba. After David found him, he restored him to his palace, the King’s Palace. Now that Jonathan was dead along with his father, King Saul, David searched for and found the only surviving member of Jonathan’s family, Mephibosheth. It was then that he remembered a promise that he made to his best friend, Jonathan, that he would show kindness to his family. It is found 2 Samuel 9, which happened after David was firmly established as King. And what the story shows us is a picture of God’s grace to sinners. I was looking at the story as our men’s group was going through the life of King David. Today, I’d like to share with you God’s restorative plan through the life of a little-known person from the Old Testament named Mephibosheth.
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