2 Samuel 15:21-29

21And Ittai answered the king and said, [As] Jehovah liveth, and [as] my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

22And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

23And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over; the king also himself passed over the torrent Kidron, and all the people passed over, towards the way of the wilderness.

24And behold, Zadok also, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of 1God; and they set down the ark of 2God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had passed completely out of the city.

25And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of 3God into the city. If I shall find favour in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and shew me it, and its habitation.

26But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.

27And the king said to Zadok the priest, Thou art the seer: return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz thy son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

28See, I will stop in the plains of the desert, until there come word from you to inform me.

29And Zadok and Abiathar carried the ark of 4God again to Jerusalem; and they abode there.