2 Samuel 16:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

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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?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And Absalom said to him: Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

2 Samuel 16:17 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:18

And Hushai said to Absalom, “No; for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

2 Samuel 19:25

And when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 18:24

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?