27 He replied: “My lord king, my servant deceived me. For your servant said to him, ‘Saddle the donkey for me, that I may ride on it and go with the king’; your servant is lame.
28 But he slandered your servant before my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems good to you.
29 For though my father’s entire house deserved only death from my lord the king, yet you placed your servant among those who eat at your table. What right do I still have to make further appeal to the king?”
30 But the king said to him: “Why do you go on talking? I say, ‘You and Ziba shall divide the property.’”
31 Meribbaal answered the king, “Indeed let him take it all, now that my lord the king has returned safely to his house.”
32 Barzillai the Gileadite also came down from Rogelim and escorted the king to the Jordan for his crossing, taking leave of him at the Jordan.
33 It was Barzillai, a very old man of eighty, who had provided for the king during his stay in Mahanaim; he was a very great man.