Abide Absalom Along Besides Birth Dwellest Emigrated Exile Foreigner Gittite Goest Hast Home Homeland Ittai It'tai Return Stay Stranger Turn Wherefore
15:19 Then said the king to {l} Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou [art] a stranger, and also an exile.
(l) Who as some write was the king's son of Gath.
15:19 Thy place - To Jerusalem, where thy settled abode now is. The king - With Absalom who is now made king. An exile - Not much concerned in our affairs, and therefore not fit to be involved in our troubles.
15:13-23 David determined to quit Jerusalem. He took this resolve, as a penitent submitting to the rod. Before unrighteous Absalom he could justify himself, and stand out; but before the righteous God he must condemn himself, and yield to his judgments. Thus he accepts the punishment of his sin. And good men, when they themselves suffer, are anxious that others should not be led to suffer with them. He compelled none; those whose hearts were with Absalom, to Absalom let them go, and so shall their doom be. Thus Christ enlists none but willing followers. David cannot bear to think that Ittai, a stranger and an exile, a proselyte and a new convert, who ought to be encouraged and made easy, should meet with hard usage. But such value has Ittai for David's wisdom and goodness, that he will not leave him. He is a friend indeed, who loves 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 death shall separate us from his love.
Abide Absalom Besides Country Dwellest Exile Far Foreigner Gittite Goest Ittai It'tai Stranger Wherefore
Abide Absalom Besides Country Dwellest Exile Far Foreigner Gittite Goest Ittai It'tai Stranger Wherefore
