Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - 2 Samuel 9:11 - 9:11
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Ziba promised to obey the king's command. The last clause of this verse is a circumstantial clause in form, with which the writer passes over to the conclusion of his account. But the words שֻׁלְחָנִי עַל שֻׁלְחָןִ, “at my table,” do not tally with this, as they require that the words should be taken as David's own. This is precluded, however, not only by the omission of any intimation that David spoke again after Ziba, and repeated what he had said once already, and that without any occasion whatever, but also by the form of the sentence, more especially the participle אֹכֵל. There is no other course left, therefore, than to regard שֻׁלְחָנִי (my table) as written by mistake for דָּוִד שֻׁלְחַן: “but Mephibosheth ate at David's table as one of the king's sons.” The further notices in 2Sa 9:12 and 2Sa 9:13 follow this in a very simple manner. בֵּית מֹושַׁב כֹּל, “all the dwelling,” i.e., all the inhabitants of Ziba's house, namely his sons and servants, were servants of Mephibosheth, i.e., worked for him and cultivated his land, whilst he himself took up his abode at Jerusalem, to eat daily at the king's table, although he was lamed in both his feet.