17 So the king set out, and all the people followed him. They stopped at the last house 18 while all his servants marched past him. Then all the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and the Gittites—600 men who came with him from Gath(A)—marched past the king.

19 The king said to Ittai the Gittite,(B) “Why are you also going with us? Go back and stay with the new king since you’re both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

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