SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:18
Y todos sus siervos pasaban a su lado, y todos los cereteos y peleteos; y todos los geteos, seiscientos hombres que habían venido a pie desde Gat, e iban delante del rey.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And all his servants passed on beside him , etc.] 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 f261 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 27:2,3); 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.
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
וכל 3605 עבדיו 5650 עברים 5674 על 5921 ידו 3027 וכל 3605 הכרתי 3774 וכל 3605 הפלתי 6432 וכל 3605 הגתים 1663 שׁשׁ 8337 מאות 3967 אישׁ 376 אשׁר 834 באו 935 ברגלו 7272 מגת 1661 עברים 5674 על 5921 פני 6440 המלך׃ 4428
