2 Samuel 19:30
And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house. And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.
The verse belongs to the history of David's victory over Absalom and his return to Jerusalem. It stands amid the difficulties of his reign, the sad consequences of his many wives and of sons he was unable to control, Absalom's rebellion against him and the death of the petted idol of the kingdom, David's lament and his return to Jerusalem, his troubles with Joab and his numbering of the people. Mephibosheth who speaks here is Jonathan's son to whom David showed kindness. The verse is part of the account in which David's kindness to the house of Saul remains in evidence.
In it Mephibosheth welcomes the king's peaceful return to his own house and lets the other man take all the disputed property. The king's safe return home matters more to him than the property itself.
The verse belongs to David's later history which shows the fulfillment of Nathan's prophetic denunciation through the judgments that followed David's sin. It stands within the long retribution that came upon David for his wicked conduct toward Uriah. The sorrows of the rest of his life, principally in his own family, including the sad history of Amnon and Tamar and the rebellion and unnatural crimes of Absalom through chapter 19, were received back in kind for that wrong and illustrate that sin brings consequences in its own kind. This retribution proves that men are measured with the measure they mete and reap what they sow, for wrongdoing brings calamity and sorrow on the wrongdoer and it can never pay to do wrong. The detailed faithfulness with which this history is told stamps the whole account with inspiration and shows that God does not hide the sins of even the greatest kings.