{"id":60208,"date":"2019-07-28T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T11:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=60208"},"modified":"2023-02-19T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:30:29","slug":"mutual-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/mutual-loyalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutual Loyalty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[834,895],"acf":{"old_id":"60208","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"272","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Foreshadowing of future events","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In chapter 4, we encountered Mephiboshet (nee Meriv-Baal), son of Jonathan, who was crippled when dropped by his nurse as they were fleeing from David\u2019s ostensible vengeance against the House of Saul. At that instance, we noted David\u2019s fierce loyalty to those who befriended him, such as Jonathan, and observed that the reference to a son was likely a foreshadowing of future events. Here is where they begin to come to fruition\u2014but not yet entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ziba, one of Saul\u2019s retainers, identified Mephiboshet to David, who summoned him to his presence. Mephiboshet clearly approached David in great trepidation. David, however, in keeping with that aforementioned loyalty, made him a promise: \u201cFear not, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father&#8217;s sake. I will restore all the land of Saul your father, and you will eat bread at my table continually\u201d (7). Ziba, who had 15 sons and 20 servants, was put in charge of the lands that David restored to Saul\u2019s grandson, while Mephiboshet himself remained on in Jerusalem in order to avail himself of the king\u2019s hospitality on an ongoing basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is literary foreshadowing in the concluding verse, too, detailing the extent of Mephiboshet\u2019s disability (\u201che was crippled in both legs\u201d), which is irrelevant to his current status, but will recur with significance in the continuation (chapter 16 ff.).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay 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