2 Samuel 16:17

Modern King James Version

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?

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And Hushai said to Absalom, No, but whom Jehovah and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and I will stay 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 all times, and a brother is born for the time of trouble.

A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?