2 Samuel 16:17

New American Bible - revised edition

But Absalom asked Hushai: “Is this your devotion to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:18

Hushai replied to Absalom: “On the contrary, I am his whom the Lord and all this people and all Israel have chosen, and with him I will stay.

2 Samuel 19:25

Meribbaal, son of Saul, also went down to meet the king. He had not cared for his feet nor trimmed his mustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until he returned safely.

Proverbs 17:17

A friend is a friend at all times, and a brother is born for the time of adversity.

Proverbs 18:24

There are friends who bring ruin, but there are true friends more loyal than a brother.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?