²⁹ “All right,” David replied. “My decision is that you and Ziba will divide the land equally between you.”

³⁰ “Give him all of it,” Mephibosheth said. “I am content just to have you back again!”

^31-32 Barzillai, who had fed the king and his army during their exile in Mahanaim, arrived from Rogelim to conduct the king across the river. He was very old now, about eighty, and very wealthy.