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A servant reports that Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth is alive but is lame, with damaged feet from childhood. David calls Mephibosheth and reassures him, promising kindness based on the vow to Jonathan. He restores Mephibosheth’s inherited land and orders Saul’s servant, sons, and household workers to farm it for him.","052 David’s Kindness to Mephibosheth  \n2 Samuel 4:4 2 Samuel 8:15 2 Samuel 9 & 10 English Spiritual  \n052 David’s Kindness to Mephibosheth  \nEnglish  \n© 2020 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOriginal illustrations by Jim Padgett, © Sweet Publishing licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.  \n[www.sweetpublishing.com](www.sweetpublishing.com)  \nWycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. has skin darkened all of the Jim Padgett illustrations in our collection, and has modified some of them.  \nStory script © 2018 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nTemplate © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nMusic © 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.  \nA special thanks to the 50+ unnamed people who worked on the story scripts, templates, adapted illustrations and music.  \nKing David ruled over all the Israelite people, and he always did for them what was fair and just.  \nOne day David asked,“Is anyone from Saul's family still alive? If there is, I want to show God’s kindness to him in honor of Jonathan.”  \nA man who had been a servant of Saul’s family said to the King,“Jonathan's son Mephibosheth is still alive. But he is lame. His feet were damaged when he was five years old.”  \nDavid then sent for Mephibosheth.“Don't be afraid,” David said to him.“I will show you kindness because of my promise to your father Jonathan who was my friend.”  \n“I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather, Saul.”  \nThe King summoned Saul’s servant and said to him,“I have given Mephibosheth all the land that belonged to his grandfather Saul. 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