撒母耳记下 15:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

王對迦特人以太說：“你為甚麼也與我們一同走呢？回去留在新王那裡吧！因為你是個外族人，是個遠離自己家鄉逃到這裡來的人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
王 对 迦 特 人 以 太 说 ： 你 是 外 邦 逃 来 的 人 ， 为 甚 麽 与 我 们 同 去 呢 ？ 你 可 以 回 去 与 新 王 同 住 ， 或 者 回 你 本 地 去 罢 ！

Contextual Overview

¹³ A messenger came to David, saying, "The Israelites are giving their loyalty to Absalom." ¹⁴ Then David said to all his officers who were with him in Jerusalem, "We must leave quickly! If we don't, we won't be able to get away from Absalom. We must hurry before he catches us and destroys us and kills the people of Jerusalem." ¹⁵ The king's officers said to him, "We will do anything you say." ¹⁶ The king set out with everyone in his house, but he left ten slave women to take care of the palace. ¹⁷ The king left with all his people following him, and they stopped at a house far away. ¹⁸ All the king's servants passed by him—the Kerethites and Pelethites, all those from Gath, and the six hundred men who had followed him. ¹⁹ The king said to Ittai, a man from Gath, "Why are you also going with us? Turn back and stay with King Absalom because you are a foreigner. This is not your homeland. ²⁰ You joined me only a short time ago. Should I make you wander with us when I don't even know where I'm going? Turn back and take your brothers with you. May kindness and loyalty be shown to you." ²¹ But Ittai said to the king, "As surely as the Lord lives and as you live, I will stay with you, whether it means life or death." ²² David said to Ittai, "Go, march on." So Ittai from Gath and all his people with their children marched on.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ittai: 2 Samuel 18:2, Ruth 1:11-13

Reciprocal: Ruth 1:15 - return 2 Samuel 6:10 - Gittite 2 Samuel 15:18 - Gittites 2 Kings 2:2 - Tarry here Zechariah 8:23 - We will John 6:67 - Will

Cross-References

Genesis 15:21
Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite,.... Who was over the band of Gittites, the six hundred men, 2 Samuel 15:22;

wherefore goest thou also with us? one should think the king should not have discouraged any from joining and following him, when his numbers were not very large, and the in such fear on account of Absalom:

return to this place; to Jerusalem, where his station was:

and abide with the king; with Absalom, who set himself up for king, and whom the people perhaps had proclaimed as such in Hebron, where the conspiracy began:

for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile; not a native of Israel, but of another nation, and at a distance from it, and therefore not altogether under the same obligations to attend David in his troubles as others were; and by this it seems that he was a Gittite by nation, whatever the six hundred men were, and rather favours the first sense given of them in 2 Samuel 15:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 15:19. Thou art a stranger, and also an exile. — Some suppose that Ittai was the son of Achish, king of Gath, who was very much attached to David, and banished from his father's court on that account. He and his six hundred men are generally supposed to have been proselytes to the Jewish religion.