15. The king’s officers said to him, “We will do anything you say.”
16. The king set out with everyone in his house, but he left ten slave women to take care of the palace.
17. The king left with all his people following him, and they stopped at a house far away.
18. All the king’s servants passed by him—the Kerethites and Pelethites, all those from Gath, and the six hundred men who had followed him.