2 Samuel 16:17

New King James Version

So Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”

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So it was, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?”

A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.

Do you thus deal with the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

And Hushai said to Absalom, “No, but whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel choose, his I will be, and with him I will remain.