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2 Samuel 15:20 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.” "

2 Samuel 15:20

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18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.

19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place.

20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

21 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.”

22 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.

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2 Samuel 15:1

"After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him."

2 Samuel 15:2

"Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”"

2 Samuel 15:3

"Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”"

2 Samuel 15:4

"Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”"

2 Samuel 15:5

"It was so, that when any man came near to bow down to him, he stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and kissed him."

2 Samuel 15:6

"Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel."

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