Davide naMefiboshethi
1Ngalelinye lilanga Davide wabuta watsi: “Sekwabate ngisho namunye yini loyinsali yendlu yakaSawula lengingamentela umusa ngenca yaJonathani?”
2Kwakukhona sisebenti sasendlini yakaSawula lekwakutsiwa nguSiba, libito laso. Ngako bambita kutsi avele embikwaDavide, inkhosi. Davide wafike watsi kuye: “Nguwe yini Siba?”
Yena waphendvula watsi: “Ngiyinceku yakho.”
3Inkhosi yabuta yatsi: “Sekwabate ngisho namunye yini wendlu yakaSawula lengingamentela umusa waNkulunkulu?”
Siba waphendvula inkhosi watsi: “Isekhona indvodzana yaJonathani; mane nje yachwala tinyawo totimbili.”
4Inkhosi yabuta yatsi: “Iphi?”
Siba watsi: “Isendlini kaMakhire, umsa wa-Amiyeli, eLo Dabari.”
5Ngako inkhosi Davide, yatsi ayilandvwe endlini kaMakhire, umsa wa-Amiyeli, eLo Dabari.
6Watsi Mefiboshethi, umsa waJonathani, lotalwa nguSawula, nefika kuDavide, wakhotsama, akhombisa kumhlonipha.
Davide watsi: “Mefiboshethi!”
Mefiboshethi watsi: “Ngiyinceku yakho.”
7Davide watsi: “Ungesabi, ngobe ngempela ngitakwentela umusa ngenca yeyihlo Jonathani. Ngitalibuyisela kuwe lonkhe lelo live lelalilamkhulu wakho Sawula, wena-ke utabodla nami njalo nje etafuleni lami.”
8Mefiboshethi wakhotsama, watsi: “Iyini inceku yakho, kutsi ungaze unakekele inja lefile njengami?”
9Ngako inkhosi yase ibita Siba, sisebenti sakaSawula, yatsi kuye: “Senginike umntfwanemntfwanenkhosi yakho konkhe loko bekukwaSawula kanye nekwendlu yakhe. 10Wena-ke kanye nemadvodzana akho netisebenti takho kufanele nilime lomhlaba wakhe niletse tivuno, kuze lomntfwanemntfwanenkhosi yakho angetiwulamba. Mefiboshethi-ke, umntfwanemntfwanenkhosi yakho, yena utabodla kanye nami etafuleni lami onkhe emalanga.” Siba abesanemadvodzana lali-15 kanye netisebenti letingema-20.
11Siba wakhuluma enkhosini, watsi: “Inceku yakho itakwenta konkhe loko lokushiwo yinkhosi yami, inkhosi, kutsi inceku ikwente.” Ngako-ke Mefiboshethi abesadla etafuleni laDavide kanye naye njengalomunye wemadvodzana enkhosi Davide.
12Mefiboshethi-ke abenendvodzana yakhe leyayiseyincane, libito layo kunguMikha; bonkhe bendlu yaSiba bebatisebenti taMefiboshethi. 13Mefiboshethi-ke abesahlala eJerusalema, ngobe abesadla nenkhosi etafuleni layo njalo nje. Abechwale tinyawo totimbili.
