And Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your lovingkindness to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
Then Hushai said to Absalom, “No! For whom Yahweh, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.
Now it happened when he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
“Do you thus repay Yahweh, O people who are wickedly foolish and without wisdom? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.