Kings: Exercised Great Hospitality
Source: TTT
1 Samuel 20:25–27
He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty. / Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.” / But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”
2 Samuel 9:7–13
“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.” / Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?” / Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
2 Samuel 19:33
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you at my side in Jerusalem.”
1 Kings 4:22, 23, 28
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, / ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry. / Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.