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## you will always eat at my table ##
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Here the "my table" refers to being together with or in David's presence. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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## What is your servant, that you should look with favor on such a dead dog as I am? ##
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This question is asked to show Mephibosheth understands his place. AT: "I am of no importance at all." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## such a dead dog ##
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Here the Mephibosheth represents the line of Saul, and compares himself to a "dead dog." Dogs were all feral and while alive were of little importance and were not directly cared for. So, a dead dog would have even less importance. AT: "I am like a dead dog" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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