Discovery Box2 Samuel 9:7 
Context9:7 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
Context9:10 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
Context9:13 Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, 6 for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.
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.
