2 Samuel 19:29
New International Version
The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”

New Living Translation
“You’ve said enough,” David replied. “I’ve decided that you and Ziba will divide your land equally between you.”

English Standard Version
And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”

Berean Standard Bible
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

King James Bible
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

New King James Version
So the king said to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, ‘You and Ziba divide the land.’ ”

New American Standard Bible
So the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decided, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’”

NASB 1995
So the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decided, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’”

NASB 1977
So the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decided, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’”

Legacy Standard Bible
So the king said to him, “Why do you still speak of your affairs? I have decided, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’”

Amplified Bible
The king said to him, “Why speak anymore of your affairs? I have said, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the land.’”

Christian Standard Bible
The king said to him, “Why keep on speaking about these matters of yours? I hereby declare: you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The king said to him, “Why keep on speaking about these matters of yours? I hereby declare: you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

American Standard Version
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The King said to him: “It is enough! You have spoken your words. I have said that between you and Tsiba the fields are divided!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any longer of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Siba shall divide the land.

Contemporary English Version
David answered, "You've said enough! I've decided to divide the property between you and Ziba."

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the king said to him: Why speakest thou any more? what I have said is determined: thou and Siba divide the possessions.

English Revised Version
And the king said unto him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The king asked him, "Why do you keep talking about it? I've said that you and Ziba should divide the land."

Good News Translation
The king answered, "You don't have to say anything more. I have decided that you and Ziba will share Saul's property."

International Standard Version
In response, the king told him, "What's the point of us talking anymore? My decision is that you and Ziba divide the fields."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the king said unto him: 'Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I say: Thou and Ziba divide the land.'

Literal Standard Version
And the king says to him, “Why do you speak anymore of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba—share the field.”

Majority Standard Bible
The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.”

New American Bible
But the king said to him: “Why do you go on talking? I say, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the property.’ ”

NET Bible
Then the king replied to him, "Why should you continue speaking like this? You and Ziba will inherit the field together."

New Revised Standard Version
The king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”

New Heart English Bible
The king said to him, "Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land."

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

World English Bible
The king said to him, “Why do you speak any more of your matters? I say, you and Ziba divide the land.”

Young's Literal Translation
And the king saith to him, 'Why dost thou speak any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba -- share ye the field.'

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Context
Mephibosheth Excused
28For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?” 29The king replied, “Why say any more? I hereby declare that you and Ziba are to divide the land.” 30And Mephibosheth said to the king, “Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!”…

Cross References
2 Samuel 9:2
And there was a servant of Saul's family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, "Are you Ziba?" "I am your servant," he replied.

2 Samuel 9:9
Then the king summoned Saul's servant Ziba and said to him, "I have given to your master's grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.

2 Samuel 19:28
For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?"

2 Samuel 19:30
And Mephibosheth said to the king, "Instead, since my lord the king has safely come to his own house, let Ziba take it all!"


Treasury of Scripture

And the king said to him, Why speak you any more of your matters? I have said, You and Ziba divide the land.

Why speakest

Job 19:16,17
I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth…

Proverbs 18:13
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

Acts 18:15
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.

thou

Deuteronomy 19:17-19
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; …

Psalm 82:2
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Psalm 101:5
Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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2 Samuel 19
1. Joab causes the king to cease his mourning
9. The Israelites are earnest to bring the king back
11. David sends to the priest to incite them of Judah
18. Shimei is pardoned
24. Mephibosheth excused
32. Barzillai dismissed, and Chimham his son taken into the king's family
41. The Israelites expostulate with Judah for bringing home the king without them














(29) Divide the land.--When Ziba came to David with his false report about Mephibosheth, David had instantly transferred to him all his master's possessions (2Samuel 16:4); he now saw the injustice of his hasty action, and ought at least to have reversed it, if not to have punished Ziba besides. Either, however, because he had still some doubt of the real merits of the case, or more probably because he was unwilling for political reasons to offend Ziba, he resorts to that halfway and compromise course which was both weak and unjust. The circumstances of the case, the continued mourning of Mephibosheth, the silence of Ziba, concur with the physical infirmity of Mephibosheth to show the truth of his story.

Verse 29. - Thou and Ziba divide the land. Two views are taken of this decision - the one, that it was a complete reversal of the command in 2 Samuel 16:4, placing matters upon the old footing, by which Ziba was to have half the produce for cultivating the estate; the other, and apparently the most correct view, is that Ziba was now made actual owner of half the land, and Mephibosheth, instead of a half, would henceforth have only a quarter of the crops. The decision was not equitable, and David speaks in a curt and hurried manner, as though vexed with himself for what he was doing. As a matter of fact, Ziba's treachery had been most useful to David. Besides the pleasure at the time of finding one man faithful, when "all men were liars" (Psalm 116:11), Ziba had been most active in bringing over the tribe of Benjamin to David's side; and though his motives were selfish and venal, yet, as the king reaped the benefit of his conduct, he was bound not to leave him without reward.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The king
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

replied,
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Why
לָ֛מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

say
תְּדַבֵּ֥ר (tə·ḏab·bêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

any more?
ע֖וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

I hereby declare
אָמַ֕רְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

that you
אַתָּ֣ה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

and Ziba
וְצִיבָ֔א (wə·ṣî·ḇā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 6717: Ziba -- a servant in Saul's house

are to divide
תַּחְלְק֖וּ (taḥ·lə·qū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

the land.”
הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃ (haś·śā·ḏeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7704: Field, land


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