2 Samuel 16:17 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁷ And Aḇshalom said to Ḥushai, “Is this your loving-commitment 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 Ḥushai said to Aḇshalom, “No, I am for the one whom יהוה and this people and all the men of Yisra’ĕl have chosen, and with him I remain.

2 Samuel 19:25

And it came to be, when he had come to Yerushalayim to meet the sovereign, that the sovereign said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephiḇosheth?”

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!

Deuteronomy 32:6

“Do you do this to יהוה, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you, Who created you and established you?