2 Samuel 9:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:3

The king said, “And where is your master’s son?” Ziba said to the king, “He remains in Jerusalem, for he said, ‘Today the house of Israel will give me back my grandfather’s kingdom.’ ”

2 Samuel 19:18

while the crossing was taking place, to bring over the king’s household and to do his pleasure. Shimei son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan

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 21:7

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul’s son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

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.”

1 Kings 2:7

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.

2 Kings 25:29

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

Jeremiah 52:34

For his allowance, a regular daily allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, as long as he lived, up to the day of his death.

Luke 14:15

One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, “Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”