But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at your table: for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom your brother.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Table, or of the meat, which had been served upon it; as was the custom at the court of Persia, Daniel i. 5.
Brother. See 2 Kings xix. 31. (Calmet)
