1. When David was a little past the top, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a container of wine.
2. The king said to Ziba, “What do you mean by these?”Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that those who are faint in the wilderness may drink.”
3. The king said, “Where is your master’s son?”Ziba said to the king, “Behold, he is staying in Jerusalem; for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore me the kingdom of my father.’”
4. Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.”Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favour in your sight, my lord, O king.”
5. When king David came to Bahurim, behold, a man of the family of Saul’s house came out, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera. He came out and cursed as he came.
6. He cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David, and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
7. Shimei said when he cursed, “Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and wicked fellow!
8. The Lord has returned on you all the blood of Saul’s house, in whose place you have reigned! the Lord has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son! Behold, you are caught by your own mischief, because you are a man of blood!”