2 Samuel 15:17-21

English Standard Version

¹⁷ And the king went out, and all the people after him. And they halted at the last house.

¹⁸ And ^(A)all his servants passed by him, and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the six hundred Gittites who had followed him from ^(B)Gath, passed on before the king. ¹⁹ Then the king said to ^(C)Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Go back and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile from your home. ²⁰ You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander about with us, since I go ^(D)I know not where? Go back and take your brothers with you, and may the Lord show^[a] steadfast love and faithfulness to you.” ²¹ But Ittai answered the king, ^(E)“As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, ^(F)wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.”