19 Then the king said to Itʹtai+ the Gitʹtite: “Why should you yourself also go with us? Go back+ and dwell with the king; for you are a foreigner and, besides, you are an exile from your place.

21 But Itʹtai answered the king and said: “As Jehovah is living and as my lord the king is living,+ in the place where my lord the king may come to be, whether for death or for life, there is where your servant will come to be!”+