Then Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this the extent of your commitment to your friend? Why have you not gone with your friend?”
When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”
A man of many friends may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
A friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity.
Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who has bought you? Has He not made you, and established you?
Hushai said to Absalom, “No! For whom the Lord, this people, and all men of Israel have chosen, his I will be and with him I will remain.