2 Samuel 16:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 2 So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and he went in to his father's concubines before all Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness and loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this how you show loyal love to your friend? Why didn’t you go with him?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And Absalom said to him: "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"

2 Samuel 16:17 Cross References

2 Samuel 19:25

0 And Miphiboseth answered the king: Yea, let him take all, for as much as my lord the king is returned peaceably into his house.

Proverbs 18:24

The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

Proverbs 17:17

4 Wisdom shineth in the face of the wise: the eyes of fools are in the ends of the earth.

Deuteronomy 32:6

1 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

2 Samuel 16:18

3 Now the counsel of Achitophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man should consult God: so was all the counsel of Achitophel, both when he was with David, and when he was with Absalom.