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19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, |Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country. 20 It seems like you arrived just yesterday. Today should I make you wander around by going with us? I go where I must go. But as for you, go back and take your men with you. May genuine loyal love protect you!| 21 But Ittai replied to the king, |As surely as the LORD lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, there I will be as well!| 22 So David said to Ittai, |Come along then.| So Ittai the Gittite went along, accompanied by all his men and all the dependents who were with him. 2 Samuel 15:19-22, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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