2 Samuweli
9:1 UDavide wathi: "Ingabe kukhona abasele endlini kaSawule, ukuthi?"
Ngingamenzela umusa ngenxa kaJonathani na?
9:2 Futhi kwakukhona endlini kaSawule inceku ogama lakhe lalinguZiba. Futhi
sebembizele kuDavide, inkosi yathi kuye: "Nguwe na?"
Ziba? Wathi: "Inceku yakho yiyo."
" 9:3 Inkosi yasisithi: "Akukabi khona muntu wendlu kaSawule, ukuze ngikwazi?"
ungenzele umusa kaNkulunkulu kuye na? USiba wasesithi enkosini: Jonathani
usenendodana elunyonga ezinyaweni.
9:4 Inkosi yathi kuye: "Uphi yena?" USiba wasesithi enkosini.
bheka, usendlini kaMakiri indodana ka-Amiyeli eLodebari.
9:5 Khona-ke inkosi uDavide wathumela wamlanda endlini kaMakiri, the
indodana ka-Amiyeli, eLodebari.
9:6 Manje, lapho uMefibosheti, indodana kaJonathani, indodana kaSawule, wafika
kuDavide, wawa ngobuso bakhe, wakhuleka. UDavide wathi:
uMefibhosheti. Wathi: Nansi inceku yakho!
" 9:7 UDavide wathi kuye: "Ungesabi, ngoba ngokuqinisekile ngizobonisa umusa kuwe
ngenxa kaJonathani uyihlo, futhi ngizokubuyisela lonke izwe lakubo
uSawule uyihlo; futhi uyakudla isinkwa etafuleni lami njalo.
9:8 Wakhothama, futhi wathi: "Iyini inceku yakho, ukuba wena?
bheka inja efile njengami?
9:9 Inkosi yayisibiza uZiba, inceku kaSawule, yathi kuye: "Nginaye."
wanika indodana yenkosi yakho konke okwakungokukaSawule nakho konke okungokwakhe
indlu.
9:10 Ngakho wena, namadodana akho, nezinceku zakho, niyolima umhlabathi
wena, ulethe izithelo, ukuze indodana yenkosi yakho ibe nayo
ukudla okudliwayo, kepha uMefibosheti indodana yenkosi yakho uyakudla isinkwa njalonjalo
itafula lami. USiba wayenamadodana ayishumi nanhlanu nezinceku ezingamashumi amabili.
" 9:11 USiba wayesethi enkosini: "Njengakho konke enkosini yami, inkosi
iyale inceku yayo, inceku yakho iyakwenza njalo. Ngokwe
Wathi uMefibosheti, "Uyakudla etafuleni lami njengomunye wezinceku."
amadodana enkosi.
9:12 Futhi uMefibosheti wayenendodana encane, ogama lakhe lalinguMika. Futhi konke lokho
ehlala endlini kaZiba, izinceku zikaMefibosheti.
9:13 Ngakho uMefibosheti wahlala eJerusalema, ngoba wayedla ngaso sonke isikhathi
itafula lenkosi; wayelunyonga izinyawo zakhe zombili.