¹³ So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, ^(A)for he ate continually at the king’s table. And he ^(B)was lame in both his feet.

²⁸ For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. ^(A)Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to ^[a]cry out anymore to the king?”

⁷ But the king spared ^(A)Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of ^(B)the Lord’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

⁷ “But show kindness to the sons of ^(A)Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who ^(B)eat at your table, for so ^(C)they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

²⁹ So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he ^(A)ate ^[a]bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.