19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.
2 Samuel 15:19
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2 Samuel 19:36–38
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2 Samuel 19:8–10
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