* shall eat bread.
   The eating at courts was of two kinds; the one public and
   ceremonious, the other private.  Sir John Chardin understands
   those passages which speak of a right to eat at the royal
   table, as pointing out a right to a seat there, when the
   repast was public and solemn.  So in a MS. Note on 1; Ki 2:7,
   he tells us that it was to be understood of the {majilis,}
   (the term for an assembly of lords, or a public feast,) and
   not of the daily and ordinary repast.  Hence, though
   Mephibosheth was to eat at all public times at the king's
   table, yet he would want the produce of his lands for food at
   other times, which it was necessary for Ziba to understand.

  7,11-13  19:28  2Ki 25:29  Lu 14:15