Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you or turn back from you. For where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.
For if you are silent-silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place. But you and your father’s house, y’all will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”
Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.
Ittai answered the king and said, “As YHWH lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”
I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”
