2 Samuel 16:17

A Conservative Version

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why did thou not go with thy friend?

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And it came to pass, when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why did thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

And Hushai said to Absalom, No, but whom LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him I will abide.