Ittai answered the king and said, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.”
Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
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.