Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness and loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?
Hushai said to Absalom, No, for whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with him I will remain.
And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, David said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
A friend loves at all times, and is born, as is a brother, for adversity.
The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father Who acquired you for His own, Who made and established you [as a nation]?