2 Samuel 16:17

New International Version

Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he’s your friend, why didn’t you go with him?”

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When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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

Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the Lord, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him.