2 Samuel 15:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ As the king and all his men were leaving the city, they stopped at the last house. ¹⁸ All his officials stood^[a] next to him as the royal bodyguards passed by in front of him. The six hundred soldiers who had followed him from Gath also passed by, ¹⁹ and the king said to Ittai, their leader, “Why are you going with us? Go back and stay with the new king. You are a foreigner, a refugee away from your own country.