2 Samuel 16:17

The English Standar Version

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

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And when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?"

A man of many companions may come 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 adversity.

Do you thus repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

And Hushai said to Absalom, "No, for whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.