10 You therefore, and your sons and your servants, shall work the land for him, and you shall bring in the harvest, that your master’s son may have food to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s son (A)shall eat bread at my table always.” Now Ziba had (B)fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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10 You and your sons and your servants are to farm the land for him and bring in the crops, so that your master’s grandson(A) may be provided for. And Mephibosheth, grandson of your master, will always eat at my table.” (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.)

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So David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan your father’s sake, and will restore to you all the land of Saul your grandfather; and you shall eat bread at my table continually.”

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“Don’t be afraid,” David said to him, “for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan.(A) I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.(B)

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28 For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king. (A)Yet you set your servant among those who eat at your own table. Therefore what right have I still to [a]cry out anymore to the king?”

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  1. 2 Samuel 19:28 complain

28 All my grandfather’s descendants deserved nothing but death(A) from my lord the king, but you gave your servant a place among those who eat at your table.(B) So what right do I have to make any more appeals to the king?”

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The Parable of the Great Supper(A)

15 Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, (B)“Blessed is he who shall eat [a]bread in the kingdom of God!”

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  1. Luke 14:15 M dinner

The Parable of the Great Banquet(A)

15 When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast(B) in the kingdom of God.”(C)

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29 So Jehoiachin changed from his prison garments, and he (A)ate [a]bread regularly before the king all the days of his life.

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  1. 2 Kings 25:29 Food

29 So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table.(A)

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11 Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king has commanded his servant, so will your servant do.”

“As for Mephibosheth,” said the king, “he shall eat at [a]my table like one of the king’s sons.” 12 Mephibosheth had a young son (A)whose name was Micha. And all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth. 13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, (B)for he ate continually at the king’s table. And he (C)was lame in both his feet.

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  1. 2 Samuel 9:11 LXX David’s table

11 Then Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do whatever my lord the king commands his servant to do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s[a] table like one of the king’s sons.(A)

12 Mephibosheth had a young son named Mika, and all the members of Ziba’s household were servants of Mephibosheth.(B) 13 And Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table; he was lame in both feet.

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  1. 2 Samuel 9:11 Septuagint; Hebrew my