2 Samuel 15:22
And 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. And 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.
David went out of Jerusalem's gate in humility and sorrow, driven from his throne and his palace and the ark of God by the uprising of his cherished son, while the people followed behind in a long sad procession like a funeral train. Those who marched with him included Ittai's company, strangers and exiles, six hundred men from Gath together with the Cherethites and Pelethites who formed his bodyguard, men who had turned from paganism to the worship of Jehovah. With characteristic unselfishness he did not wish them to be drawn into his calamity and urged them to turn back, surprised that they would make such a sacrifice when he himself did not know where he was going. They nobly refused to leave him in life or in death, thus proving their fidelity to their God and their king, and with a grateful heart he accepted their devotion to his apparently sinking cause.
With all his men and all the little ones with him, Ittai then passed over the brook Kidron with the king on the way toward the wilderness. That same company, with his men and the little ones with him, is also understood to have crossed the Jordan as David and his company fled Jerusalem before Absalom's forces. The crossing took place in darkness in the midst of urgent flight, after the company had paused for a short rest beside the deep, swift-flowing river.