And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness with your friend? Why have you not gone with your friend?
And Hushai said to Absalom, No, for he whom Jehovah and this people have chosen, even all the men of Israel, his I shall be, and I shall remain with him.
And it happened when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
A friend loves at every time, and a brother is born for distress.
A man of friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.
Do you thus give back to Jehovah, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has not He made you and established you?