15. He won the hearts of the Judahites all together, and so they sent a message to the king: “Return, with all your servants.”
16. So the king returned, and when he reached the Jordan, Judah had come to Gilgal to meet him and to bring him across the Jordan.
17. Shimei, son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim, hurried down with the Judahites to meet King David,
18. accompanied by a thousand men from Benjamin. Ziba, too, the servant of the house of Saul, accompanied by his fifteen sons and twenty servants, hastened to the Jordan before the king.