2 Samuel 9:7

9:7 David said to him, “Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table.” ¹ 

2 Samuel 9:10

9:10 You will cultivate ²  the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce ³  and it will be ⁴  food for your master’s grandson to eat. ⁵  But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

2 Samuel 9:13

9:13 Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, ⁶  for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.

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¹ tn Heb “and you will eat food over my table continually.”

² tn Heb “work.”

³ tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.

⁴ tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.

⁵ tn Heb “and he will eat it.”

⁶ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.