¹⁹ Then the king said to ^(A)Ittai 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.

² Then David sent out one third of the people under the hand of Joab, ^(A)one third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the hand of ^(B)Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, “I also will surely go out with you myself.”

¹¹ But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb, ^(A)that they may be your husbands? ¹² Turn back, my daughters, go—for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, if I should have a husband tonight and should also bear sons, ¹³ would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that ^(B)the hand of the Lord has gone out against me!”