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reserued an hundreth charets of them. 5 Then lame of his feete. Then the King said vnto him,
came the Aramites of Dammesek to succour Where is he? And Ziba said vnto the King, Behold,
Hadadezer king of Zobah, but Dauid slewe of the heisinthehouseofMachiryesonneofAmmielof
Aramites two and twenty thousande men. And Lo-debar. Then King Dauid sent, and tooke him
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Dauid put a garison in Aram of Damesek: and the out of the house of Machir the sonne of Ammiel of
Aramites became seruants to Dauid, and brought Lo-debar. Nowe when Mephibosheth the sonne
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gifts. And the Lord saued Dauid wheresoeuer of Ionathan, the sonne of Saul was come vnto
he went. 7 And Dauid tooke the shieldes of gold Dauid, he fel on his face, and did reuerence. And
that beloged to the seruants of Hadadezer, and Dauid sayde, Mephibosheth? And he answered,
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brought them to Ierusalem. 8 And out of Betah, Beholde thy seruant. Then Dauid sayd vnto him,
and Berothai (cities of Hadadezer) king Dauid Feare not: for I wil surely shewe thee kindnes
brought exceeding much brasse. Then Toi king for Ionathan thy fathers sake, and will restore
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of Hamath heard howe Dauid had smitten all the thee all the fieldes of Saul thy father, and thou
hoste of Hadadezer, 10 Therefore Toi sent Ioram shalt eate bread at my table continually. 8 And
his sonne vnto King Dauid, to salute him, and to he bowed himselfe and sayd, What is thy seruant,
reioyce with him because he had fought against that thou shouldest looke vpon such a dead dog
Hadadezer, and beaten him (for Hadadezer had as I am? Then the king called Ziba Sauls seruant,
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warre with Toi) who brought with him vessels and said vnto him, I haue giue vnto thy masters
of siluer, and vessels of golde, and vessels of sonne all that perteined to Saul and to all his
brasse. 11 And King Dauid did dedicate them vnto house. 10 Thou therefore and thy sonnes and thy
the Lord with the siluer and golde that he had seruantes shall till the lande for him, and bring in
dedicateofallthenations, whichhehadsubdued: that thy masters sonne may haue foode to eate.
12 Of Aram, and of Moab, and of the children of And Mephibosheth thy masters sonne shall eate
Ammon, and of the Philistims, and of Amalek,
and of the spoyle of Hadadezer ye sonne of Rehob bread alway at my table (nowe Ziba had fifteene
King of Zobah. 13 So Dauid gate a name after sonnes, and twentie seruants) 11 Then sayd Ziba
that hee returned, and had slayne of the Aramites vnto the King, According to all that my lord the
in the valley of salt eighteene thousand men. King hath commaded his seruant, so shall thy
14 And he put a garison in Edom: throughout seruat do, that Mephibosheth may eate at my ta-
all Edom put he souldiers, and all they of Edom ble, as one of the Kings sonnes. 12 Mephibosheth
became Dauids seruants: and the Lord kept Dauid also had a yong sonne named Micha, and all
whithersoeuer he went. 15 Thus Dauid reigned that dwelled in the house of Ziba, were seruants
ouer all Israel, and executed iudgement and ius- vnto Mephibosheth. 13 And Mephibosheth dwelt
tice vnto all his people. 16 And Ioab the sonne in Ierusalem: for he did eate continually at the
of Zeruiah was ouer the hoste, and Ioshaphat Kings table, and was lame on both his feete.
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the sonne of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the sonne
of Abiathar were the Priestes, and Seraiah the 1 After this, the King of the children of Ammon
Scribe. 18 And Benaiah the sonne of Iehoiada and dyed, and Hanun his sonne reigned in his steade.
the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and Dauids 2 Then sayde Dauid, I will shewe kindnesse vnto
sonnes were chiefe rulers. Hanun the sonne of Nahash, as his father shewed

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to comfort him for his father. So Dauids seruants
1 And Dauid sayde, Is there yet any man left of came into the lande of the children of Ammon.
And the princes of the children of Ammon
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the house of Saul, that I may shew him mercie for sayde vnto Hanun their lorde, Thinkest thou that
Ionathans sake? And there was of the housholde Dauid doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
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of Saul a seruant whose name was Ziba, and when
they had called him vnto Dauid, the King sayd comforters to thee? hath not Dauid rather sent
vnto him, Art thou Ziba? And he sayd, I thy his seruants vnto thee, to search the citie, and
Wherefore
to spie it out, and to ouerthrow it?
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seruant am he. Then the King sayd, Remayneth Hanun tooke Dauids seruants, and shaued off the
there yet none of the house of Saul, on whome halfe of their beard, and cut off their garments
I may shewe the mercie of God? Ziba then in the middle, euen to their buttockes, and sent
answered the King, Ionathan hath yet a sonne them away. When it was told vnto Dauid, he sent
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