“And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.”
King James Version (KJV)
30:21 Saluted them - He spoke kindly to them, and did not blame them because they went no further with them.