[Avodah] Mephivoshes

[Ilana Sober Elzufon]

RGD: Could someone clarify for me if the son of Yehonasan, named Mephivoshes
and described in Shemuel II 4, is the same as that described in the same
sefer, Perek 9?.....Why then are they discussed in separate perakim?

Yes, they are the same person.

Perek 4 recounts the assassination of Shaul's son Ish-boshet, leaving the
young, crippled, and apparently obscure (see perek 9) Mephivoshet as the
only survivor of beit Shaul and setting the stage for David to become king
over all the tribes.

Perek 9 describes David's discovery of Mephivoshet, the restoration of
Shau'ls fields to him, and David's chessed to beit Shaul (and to Yonatan) in
in making him one of those who eat at the king's table.

He appears again in the story of mered Avshalom.

- Ilana
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