10:015:015 And the king’s servants said unto
the king, Behold, thy
servants
are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall
appoint.
10:015:016 And the king went forth, and all his household
after him. And
the
king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep
the
house.
10:015:017 And the king went forth, and all the people
after him, and
tarried
in a place that was far off.
10:015:018 And all his servants passed on beside him;
and all the
Cherethites,
and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six
hundred
men which came after him from Gath, passed on before
the
king.
10:015:019 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite,
Wherefore goest thou
also
with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king:
for
thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
10:015:020 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should
I this day make thee
go
up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return
thou,
and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be
with
thee.
10:015:021 And Ittai answered the king, and said,
As the lord liveth, and
as
my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord
the
king
shall be, whether in death or life, even there also
will
thy
servant be.
10:015:022 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over.
And Ittai the
Gittite
passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones
that
were with him.
10:015:023 And all the country wept with a loud voice,
and all the people
passed
over: the king also himself passed over the brook
Kidron,
and all the people passed over, toward the way of the
wilderness.
10:015:024 And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites
were with him, bearing
the
ark of the covenant of God: and they set down
the ark of
God;
and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done
passing
out of the city.
10:015:025 And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back
the ark of God into
the
city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the
lord, he
will
bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
10:015:026 But if he thus say, I have no delight in
thee; behold, here am
I,
let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
10:015:027 The king said also unto Zadok the priest,
Art not thou a seer?
return
into the city in peace, and your two sons with you,
Ahimaaz
thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
10:015:028 See, I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness,
until there
come
word from you to certify me.
10:015:029 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the
ark of God again to
Jerusalem:
and they tarried there.


