Where would you rather be?
From Poverty to the Palace Mephibosheth sat in a house in Lo-Debar, a slum town of ancient Israel far from the king’s court. At the tender age of five, he had lost his claim to the throne because King Saul, his grandfather, and his father had died in battle. On that fateful day, his nurse fled with him in her arms, but in her haste, he fell and became lame in both his feet. David became Israel’s next king. After he had established his throne in Jerusalem, he remembered Jonathan, Mephibosheth’s father. Had anyone of his family survived? David learned from Ziba, Saul’s former servant, about Mephibosheth, and he called him to the palace. “Mephibosheth!” “Your servant.” “Don’t be afraid because I will be kind to you for the sake of your father, Jonathan. I will restore your land, and you will eat at the king’s table.” Mephibosheth bowed before the king. “Why should you notice a dead dog like me?” David told Ziba to gather his family to serve Mephibosheth....