2 Samuel 15:20 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Samuel 15:20

18 Then all his servants passed¹ before him; ^aand all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, ^bsix hundred men who had followed him from Gath, passed before the king.

19 Then the king said to ^aIttai the Gittite, “Why are you also going with us? Return and remain with the king. For you are a foreigner and also an exile from your own place.

20 In fact, you came only yesterday. Should I make you wander up and down with us today, since I go ^aI know not where? Return, and take your brethren back. Mercy and truth be with you.”

21 But Ittai answered the king and said, ^a“As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in whatever place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also your servant will be.”

22 So David said to Ittai, “Go, and cross over.” Then Ittai the Gittite and all his men and all the little ones who were with him crossed over.

23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people crossed over. The king himself also crossed over the Brook Kidron, and all the people crossed over toward the way of the ^awilderness.

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all the Gittites, six hundred men—These were a body of foreign guards, natives of Gath, whom David, when in the country of the Philistines, had enlisted in his service, and kept around his person. Addressing their commander, Ittai, he made a searching trial of their fidelity in bidding them (II Samuel 15:19) abide with the new king.

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