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Mephibosheth (I)

I. MEPHIBOSHETH, or Miphibosheth; Son of Saul and of his Concubine Rizpah. David delivered up Mephibosheth to the Gibeonites, to be by them hanged up before the Lord, by Way of Expiation for the Cruelties exercised by Saul against the Gibeonites, 2 Sam. xxi. 8, 9.

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