![]() ![]() Therefore Mephibosheth is a servant of David ( love) and is worthy to eat at his table. That which Mephibosheth symbolizes erases false images that have been formed in the mind by false thinking, and thus opens the way for the perfect to manifest. The invisible power that brought Mephibosheth into the house of David, where henceforth he was to eat bread at the king's table, was that love ( David) sees perfection everywhere, and attracts forces of a character like its own. Jonathan was killed in battle when Mephibosheth was five years old. ![]() Mephibosheth says, Do therefore what is good in thine eyes for all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at. A son of Jonathan, who was granted special position and privilege in David's court ( 2 Samuel 9:1 ). But being lame, Ziba had slipped into the saddle and thus misrepresented Mephibosheth and played the hypocrite. ![]() The house of Saul was reduced to a barren, crippled state. (meh fih' oh sshehth) Personal name meaning, shame destroyer or image breaker. The two names seem to have the same meaning: Bosheth, shame. David found him in the house of Machir, which means sold, at the place called Lodebar, which means barren. Mephibosheth Also called Merib-baal (and Meri-baal, probably by a clerical error, 1Ch 9:40). The history of Mephibosheth shows us to what a destructive end an unrestrained exercise of the personal will can come. The faculty of mind that, though without full understanding of spiritual law as it relates to the manifest, symbolized by the crippled feet ( feet stand for the phase of understanding that comes in touch with the world and outer conditions), has caught a glimpse of the divine pattern in the spiritual heavens of man's mind, and therefore endeavors to erase from consciousness all limited images and beliefs ( blowing away confusion, exterminating idolatry). He was lame in his feet, and was cared for by David after Saul and Jonathan were slain ( II Sam. Son of Jonathan, and grandson of Saul ( II Sam. Mephibosheth, me-phib'-o-sheth (Heb.) -breathing shame blowing away confusion scattering disgrace dispersing ignominy exterminating idolatry. Metaphysical meaning of Mephibosheth (mbd) ![]()
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