SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:3
Y dijo el rey: ¿Dónde está el hijo de tu señor? Y Siba respondió al rey: He aquí él se ha quedado en Jerusalén, porque ha dicho: Hoy me devolverá la casa de Israel el reino de mi padre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 16:3
Verse 3. To-day shall the house of Israel] What a base wretch was Ziba! and how unfounded was this accusation against the peaceable, loyal and innocent Mephibosheth!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And the king said, and where [is] thy master’s son ? etc.] The son of Saul, who was Ziba’s master, meaning Mephibosheth: and Ziba said unto the king, behold, he abideth at Jerusalem ; as there was reason for it, since he was lame of both his feet, ( 2 Samuel 9:13), though he could have rode upon an ass, and followed the king, as he proposed to do; but his servant deceived him, and carried off the asses to serve a purpose for himself, (see 2 Samuel 19:26); for he said, today shall the house of Israel restore unto me the kingdom of my father ; his father Saul; which was far from his thoughts; and a most wicked suggestion of his servant to blacken his character, and get his estate from him; nor was there the least probability of the kingdom coming to him, but all the reverse; for let it go how it would with David, Absalom, and not Mephibosheth, stood fair for the kingdom.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - Ziba belied Mephibosheth. Great men ought always to be jealous of flatterers, and to be careful that they hear both sides.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 המלך 4428 ואיה 346 בן 1121 אדניך 113 ויאמר 559 ציבא 6717 אל 413 המלך 4428 הנה 2009 יושׁב 3427 בירושׁלם 3389 כי 3588 אמר 559 היום 3117 ישׁיבו 7725 לי בית 1004 ישׂראל 3478 את 853 ממלכות 4468 אבי׃ 1
