Discovery Box2 Samuel 9:10 
Context9:10 You will cultivate 1 the land for him – you and your sons and your servants. You will bring its produce 2 and it will be 3 food for your master’s grandson to eat. 4 But Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, will be a regular guest at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)
2 Samuel 11:11
Context11:11 Uriah replied to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord’s soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations 5 with my wife? As surely as you are alive, 6 I will not do this thing!”
2 Samuel 12:3
Context12:3 But the poor man had nothing except for a little lamb he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up alongside him and his children. 7 It used to 8 eat his food, 9 drink from his cup, and sleep in his arms. 10 It was just like a daughter to him.
2 Samuel 13:5-6
Context13:5 Jonadab replied to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. 11 When your father comes in to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.’”
13:6 So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, “Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 16:2
Context16:2 The king asked Ziba, “Why did you bring these things?” 12 Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s family to ride on, the loaves of bread 13 and the summer fruit are for the attendants to eat, and the wine is for those who get exhausted in the desert.” 14
2 Samuel 19:28
Context19:28 After all, there was no one in the entire house of my grandfather 15 who did not deserve death from my lord the king. But instead you allowed me to eat at your own table! 16 What further claim do I have to ask 17 the king for anything?”
2 Samuel 19:35
Context19:35 I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I 18 taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I 19 continue to be a burden to my lord the king?
1 tn Heb “work.”
2 tn The Hebrew text implies, but does not actually contain, the words “its produce” here.
3 tc The words “it will be,” though present in the MT, are absent from the LXX, the Syriac Peshitta, and Vulgate.
4 tn Heb “and he will eat it.”
5 tn Heb “and lay.”
6 tn Heb “as you live and as your soul lives.”
7 tn Heb “his sons.”
8 tn The three Hebrew imperfect verbal forms in this sentence have a customary nuance; they describe past actions that were repeated or typical.
9 tn Heb “from his morsel.”
10 tn Heb “and on his chest [or perhaps, “lap”] it would lay.”
11 tn This verb is used in the Hitpael stem only in this chapter of the Hebrew Bible. With the exception of v. 2 it describes not a real sickness but one pretended in order to entrap Tamar. The Hitpael sometimes, as here, describes the subject making oneself appear to be of a certain character. On this use of the stem, see GKC 149-50 §54.e.
12 tn Heb “What are these to you?”
13 tc The translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew
14 tn The Hebrew text adds “to drink.”
15 tn Heb “father.”
16 tn Heb “and you placed your servant among those who eat at your table.”
17 tn Heb “to cry out to.”
18 tn Heb “your servant.”
19 tn Heb “your servant.”
