2 Samuel 16:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ ‘Is this your loyalty to your friend? ’ Absalom asked Hushai. ‘Why didn’t you go with your friend? ’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness and loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this how you show loyal love to your friend? Why didn’t you go with him?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And Absalom said to him: "Is this your kindness to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And Absalom said to him: Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

2 Samuel 16:17 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 16:18

‘Not at all,’ Hushai answered Absalom. ‘I am on the side of the one that the Lord, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen. I will stay with him.

2 Samuel 19:25

When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, ‘Mephibosheth, why didn’t you come with me? ’

Proverbs 17:17

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

Proverbs 18:24

One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the  Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator?  , Didn’t he make you and sustain you?