SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:19
Y dijo el rey a Ittai geteo: ¿Para qué vienes tú también con nosotros? Vuélvete y quédate con el rey; porque tú eres extranjero, y desterrado también de tu lugar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 15:19
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite , etc.] 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).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-23 - David determined to quit Jerusalem. He took this resolve, as a peniten submitting to the rod. Before unrighteous Absalom he could justif himself, and stand out; but before the righteous God he must condem himself, and yield to his judgments. Thus he accepts the punishment of his sin. And good men, when they themselves suffer, are anxious tha others should not be led to suffer with them. He compelled none; thos whose hearts were with Absalom, to Absalom let them go, and so shal their doom be. Thus Christ enlists none but willing followers. Davi cannot bear to think that Ittai, a stranger and an exile, a proselyt and a new convert, who ought to be encouraged and made easy, shoul meet with hard usage. But such value has Ittai for David's wisdom an goodness, that he will not leave him. He is a friend indeed, who love at all times, and will adhere to us in adversity. Let us cleave to the Son of David, with full purpose of heart, and neither life nor deat shall separate us from his love.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 המלך 4428 אל 413 אתי 863 הגתי 1663 למה 4100 תלך 1980 גם 1571 אתה 859 אתנו 854 שׁוב 7725 ושׁב 3427 עם 5973 המלך 4428 כי 3588 נכרי 5237 אתה 859 וגם 1571 גלה 1540 אתה 859 למקומך׃ 4725
