“Faithful Immigrants”

2 Samuel 15: 8: “Now all his servants passed on beside him, all the Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who had come with him from Gath.” Out of all the tribes and people of Israel, who were the most faithful to David, not only in regard to Absalom, but for over fifty years of good times and bad? This group, who had first joined David in the wilderness. And they were Philistines; aliens; immigrants, if you please. Let it be written, let it be said: You can’t judge a book by its passport cover.