And Aḇshalom said to Ḥushai, “Is this your loving-commitment to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
And Ḥushai said to Aḇshalom, “No, I am for the one whom יהוה and this people and all the men of Yisra’ĕl have chosen, and with him I remain.
And it came to be, when he had come to Yerushalayim to meet the sovereign, that the sovereign said to him, “Why did you not go with me, Mephiḇosheth?”
A friend loves at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!
“Do you do this to יהוה, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you, Who created you and established you?