2 Samuel 9:10

New American Bible - revised edition

You and your sons and servants must till the land for him. You shall bring in the produce, which shall be food for your lord’s household to eat. But Meribbaal, your lord’s son, shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:3

Then the king said, “And where is your lord’s son?” Ziba answered the king, “He is staying in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will restore to me my father’s kingdom.’”

2 Samuel 19:18

accompanied by a thousand men from Benjamin. Ziba, too, the servant of the house of Saul, accompanied by his fifteen sons and twenty servants, hastened to the Jordan before the king.

2 Samuel 19:28

But he slandered your servant before my lord the king. But my lord the king is like an angel of God. Do whatever seems good to you.

2 Samuel 21:7

The king, however, spared Meribbaal, son of Jonathan, son of Saul, because of the Lord’s oath that formed a bond between David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 9:7

“Do not be afraid,” David said to him, “I will surely be kind to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your grandfather, and you shall eat at my table always.”

1 Kings 2:7

But be true to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and have them among those who eat at your table. For they were loyal to me when I was fleeing from your brother Absalom.

2 Kings 25:29

Jehoiachin took off his prison garb; he ate regularly in the king’s presence as long as he lived;

Jeremiah 52:34

The allowance given him by the king of Babylon was a perpetual allowance, in fixed daily amounts, all the days of his life until the day of his death.

Luke 14:15

One of his fellow guests on hearing this said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the kingdom of God.”