2 Samuel 15:18

18 Todos sus oficiales se pusieron a su lado. Entonces los quereteos y los peleteos, y seiscientos guititas que lo habían seguido desde Gat, desfilaron ante el rey.

2 Samuel 15:18 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 15:18

And all his servants passed on beside him
Or at his hand or side; his household servants walking perhaps some on one side of him, and some on the other, see ( 2 Samuel 16:6 ) ;

and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites;
which were his bodyguards, see ( 2 Samuel 8:18 ) ;

and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath;
which either came with him from Gath, when he conquered that city, and took it out of the hands of the Philistines, ( 2 Samuel 8:1 ) ; compared with ( 1 Chronicles 18:1 ) ; and who might become proselytes, and be incorporated into the commonwealth of Israel, and into David's army, a troop of men, of which Ittai, after mentioned, was captain, ( 2 Samuel 15:22 ) ; or else these were Israelites, so called, because with David they sojourned in Gath a while, when he fled from Saul; and so Josephus ^F12 says, they were companions of him in his first flight, when Saul was living; and this number is just the number of the men that were with him at Gath, ( 1 Samuel 27:2 1 Samuel 27:3 ) ; and it may be David kept a troop of men always of the same number, to whom he gave this name in memory of them, having been a set of trusty and faithful men to him: these, with the Cherethites and Pelethites,

passed on before the king:
in this form and manner David and his men marched in their flight.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Ut supra, (Antiqu. l. 7. c. 9.) sect. 2.

2 Samuel 15:18 In-Context

16 De inmediato partió el rey acompañado de toda la corte, con excepción de diez concubinas que dejó para cuidar el palacio.

17 Habiendo salido del palacio con todo su séquito, se detuvo junto a la casa más lejana de la ciudad.

18 Todos sus oficiales se pusieron a su lado. Entonces los quereteos y los peleteos, y seiscientos guititas que lo habían seguido desde Gat, desfilaron ante el rey.

19 El rey se dirigió a Itay el guitita:—¿Y tú por qué vienes con nosotros? Regresa y quédate con el rey Absalón, ya que eres extranjero y has sido desterrado de tu propio país.

20 ¿Cómo voy a dejar que nos acompañes, si acabas de llegar y ni yo mismo sé a dónde vamos? Regresa y llévate a tus paisanos. ¡Y que el amor y la fidelidad de Dios te acompañen!