2 Samuel 4:4

And Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Jonathan, le fils de Saül, avait un fils qui était boiteux des pieds. Ceci est mentionné comme une raison pour laquelle il a été considéré, selon les notions orientales, inapte à faire de l'exercice les devoirs de souveraineté.