ites, valiant warriors, six hundred
men who had followed him from Geth on foot, went before the king.

15:19. And the king said to Ethai the Gethite: Why comest thou with us:
return and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and art come
out of thy own place.

15:20. Yesterday thou camest, and to day shalt thou be forced to go
forth with us? but I shall go whither I am going: return thou, and take
back thy brethren with thee, and the Lord will shew thee mercy, and
truth, because thou hast shewn grace and fidelity.

15:21. And Ethai answered the king, saying: As the Lord liveth, and as
my lord the king liveth: in what place soever thou shalt be, my lord, O
king, either in death, or in life, there will thy servant be.

15:22. And David said to Ethai: Come, and pass over. And Ethai the
Gethite passed, and all the men that were with him, and the rest of the
people.

15:23. And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed
over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the
people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.

15:24. And Sadoc the priest also came, and all the Levites with him
carrying the ark of the covenant of God, and they set down the ark of
God: and Abiathar went up, till all the people that was come out of the
city had done passing.

15:25. And the king said to Sadoc: Carry back the ark of God into the
city: if I shall find grace in the sight of the Lord, he will bring me
again, and he will shew me it, and his tabernacle.

15:26. But if he shall say to me: Thou pleasest me not: I am ready, let
him do that which is good before him.

15:27. And the king said to Sadoc the priest: O seer, return into the
city in peace: and let Achimaas thy son, and Jonathan the son of
Abiathar, your two sons, be with you.

15:28. Behold I will lie hid in the plains of the wilderness, till there
come word from you to certify me.

15:29. So Sadoc and Abiathar carried back the ark of God into Jerusalem:
and they tarried there.

15:30. But David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, going up and
weeping, walking barefoot, and with his head covered, and all the people
that were with them, went up with their heads covered weeping.

Weeping, etc... David on this occasion wept for his sins, which he knew
were the cause of all his sufferings.

15:31. And it was told David that Achitophel also was in the conspiracy
with Absalom, and David said: Infatuate, O Lord, I beseech