This would be a pretty sad story if it ended here. I can only imagine how she must have blamed herself for her carelessness, how she cried herself to sleep remembering how vibrant and full of life he had been, and now he was wracked with pain and unable to run and play like little boys should. I’m sure she bandaged up his ankles the best she could and prayed for a miracle, but Mephibosheth was forever crippled by the fall. Once hidden away she probably discovered that he was in bad shape, but what could she do? She couldn’t call for the local doctor or else word might escape that an heir was still alive. The nurse swooped him up in her arms and carried him away to safety. Whatever the reason, Mephibosheth took a nasty tumble, causing injury to both of his feet or ankles. Or maybe he wasn’t looking where she was leading, and he didn’t see an obstacle in their way. In her panic mode and in her eagerness to escape, she may have forgotten that his legs weren’t as long as hers. All around them others were doing the same. Her heart pounding, her mind racing, she grabbed his little hand and ordered him to follow her. She could have just fled, leaving him to fend for himself, but she didn’t. His nurse, whose job was to take care of him, sprang into action. Everyone’s life was suddenly in danger as the tradition of the time was for the new king to kill all heirs to the old king in order to avoid uprisings.Įven though Mephibosheth was only a small child, he was still at risk. When word reached the palace that Saul and Jonathan had been killed by the Philistines, panic broke out. So why was the nurse fleeing with the child? And it happened, as she made haste to flee, that he fell and became lame. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel and his nurse took him up and fled. In 2 Samuel 4:4 we’re told, “Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. Mephibosheth’s nurse is an unnamed woman who is mentioned just once in the Bible.
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