15. Then the king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."
16. So the king went out and all his household with him. But the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
17. The king went out and all the people with him, and they stopped at the last house.
18. Now all his servants passed on beside him, all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come with him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19. Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place.
20. You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander with us, while I go where I will? Return and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be with you."
21. But Ittai answered the king and said, "As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be."