8Mephibosheth bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?"


In Context

5 So King David had him brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel.

6 When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said, "Mephibosheth!" "Your servant," he replied.

7 "Don't be afraid," David said to him, "for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table."

8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, "What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?"

9 Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, "I have given your master's grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family.

10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master's grandson may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2nd Samuel 9:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am? ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:8He bowed down to him, and said: Who am I thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:8And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:8And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldst look upon such a dead dog as I am?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8He did obeisance, and said, |What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:8And he boweth himself, and saith, 'What is thy servant, that thou hast turned unto the dead dog — such as I?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:8And he bowed himself, and said, What is your servant, that you should look on such a dead dog as I am?