So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”

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10 You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son (A)shall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had (B)fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do.”

“As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at [a]my table like one of the king’s sons.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 9:11 LXX David’s table

“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.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:29 Food

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