2 Samuel 16:17

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

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And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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

Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee?

And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the LORD, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.