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.)

⁷ “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)”

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?”

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)

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

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.