² Now there was a servant of Saul’s household named Ziba.^(A) They summoned him to appear before David, and the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?”

“At your service,” he replied.

¹⁷ With him were a thousand Benjamites, along with Ziba,^(A) the steward of Saul’s household,^(B) and his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed to the Jordan, where the king was.

²⁹ The king said to him, “Why say more? I order you and Ziba to divide the land.”