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.
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Interpretation
David determined to quit Jerusalem. He took this resolve, as a penitent submitting to the rod.
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This thought runs through 2 Samuel 15:19-23.
Glossary
- Gath Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tell es Safi.
- Exile People
- (1. ) Of the kingdom of Israel. In the time of Pekah, Tiglath-pileser II. carried away captive into Assyria ( 2 Kings 15:29 ; comp. Isa. 10:5 , 6) a part of the inhabitants of Galilee and of Gilead (B. C. 741).