2 Samuel 15:17-19

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¹⁷ The king left [^Lon foot] with all his people following him, and they stopped at ·a house far away [the last house]. ¹⁸ All the king’s ·servants [men; officers; officials] passed by him—the Kerethites and Pelethites [^Cforeign mercenaries who served as the king’s bodyguards], ·all those from Gath, and the six hundred men who had followed him [or and the six hundred men from Gath].

¹⁹ The king said to Ittai, a man from Gath, “Why are you also going with us? Turn back and stay with ·King Absalom [^Lthe king] because you are a foreigner. ·This is not [^L…—an exile from] your homeland.