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“Thy coming is yesterday (from yesterday), and should I disturb thee to-day to go with us, when I am going just where I go?” i.e., wherever my way may lie (I go I know not whither; Chald.: cf. 1Sa 23:13). The Chethib אֲנוּעֲךָ is a copyist's error. The thought requires the Hiphil אֲנִיעֲךָ (Keri), as נוּעַ in the Kal has the intransitive meaning, to totter, sway about, or move hither and thither. “Return and take thy brethren back; grace and truth be with thee.” It is evidently more in accordance with the train of thought to separate עִמָּךְ from the previous clause and connect it with וֶאֱמֶת חֶסֶד, though this is opposed to the accents, than to adopt the adverbial interpretation, “take back thy brethren with thee in grace and truth,” as Maurer proposes. (For the thought itself, see Pro 3:3). The reference is to the grace and truth (faithfulness) of God, which David desired that Ittai should receive upon his way. In the Septuagint and Vulgate the passage is paraphrased thus: “Jehovah show thee grace and truth,” after 2Sa 2:6; but it by no means follows from this that עִמְּךָ וַעֲשֶׂה וְהֹוָה has fallen out of the Hebrew text.