All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us?
Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile.
Return to your own place.
Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may?
Return, and take back your brothers.
Mercy and truth be with you.”