1 Kings 2:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Deal loyally, however, with the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for with such loyalty they met me when I fled from your brother Absalom.

Cross References

Genesis 40:14

But remember me when it is well with you; please do me the kindness to make mention of me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this place.

2 Samuel 19:28

For all my father’s house were doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right have I, then, to appeal to the king?”

2 Samuel 9:10

You and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, so that your master’s grandson may have food to eat, but your master’s grandson Mephibosheth shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

2 Samuel 9:7

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

2 Kings 25:29

So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes. Every day of his life he dined regularly in the king’s presence.

2 Kings 25:30

For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king, a portion every day, as long as he lived.

Ezra 2:61

Also, of the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).

Proverbs 27:10

Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.

Jeremiah 52:33

So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes, and every day of his life he dined regularly at the king’s table.

Luke 12:37

Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.