2 Samuel 15:17-21

New American Standard Bible

¹⁷ The king left, and all the people ^[a]with him, and they stopped at the last house. ¹⁸ Now all of his servants passed by beside him, and ^(A)all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, ^(B)six hundred men who had come ^[b]with him from Gath, passed by before the king.

¹⁹ Then the king said to ^(C)Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you go with us too? Return and stay with ^[c]your king, since you are a foreigner and an exile as well; return to your own place. ²⁰ You came only yesterday, so should I make you wander with us today, while ^(D)I go wherever I go? Return and take your brothers back; ^(E)mercy and ^[d]truth be with you.” ²¹ But Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, ^(F)wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there assuredly shall your servant be!”