²⁵ Now the king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan stood up and Abner sat down by Saul’s side; but ^(A)David’s place was empty. ²⁶ Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day, because he thought, “It must have been an ^[a]accident; ^(B)he is not clean, undoubtedly he is not clean.” ²⁷ But it came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was empty again; so Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

⁷ Then David said to him, “Do not be afraid, for ^(A)I will assuredly show kindness to you for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I ^(B)will restore to you all the ^[a]land of your ^[b]grandfather Saul; and ^(C)you yourself shall ^[c]eat at my table regularly.” ⁸ Again he prostrated himself, and said, “What is your servant, that you should be concerned about ^(D)a dead dog like me?”

⁹ Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “^(E)Everything that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s ^[d]grandson. ¹⁰ You and your sons and your servants shall cultivate the land for him, and you shall bring in the produce so that your master’s grandson will have food ^[e]to eat; nevertheless ^(F)Mephibosheth, your master’s grandson, ^(G)shall ^[f]eat at my table regularly.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. ¹¹ Then Ziba said to the king, “In accordance ^(H)with everything that my lord the king commands his servant, so your servant will do.” So Mephibosheth ate at ^[g]David’s table as one of the king’s sons. ¹² Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth. ¹³ So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because ^(I)he ate at the king’s table regularly. And ^(J)he was disabled in his two feet.

³³ So the king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me, and I will provide you food in Jerusalem with me.”

²² Solomon’s ^[a]provision for one day was ^[b]thirty kors of fine flour and ^[c]sixty kors of meal,

²³ ten fat oxen, twenty ^[a]pasture-fed oxen, and a hundred sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened geese.

²⁸ They also brought barley and straw for the war horses and ^(A)baggage horses to the place where it was required, each deputy according to his duty.