2 Samuel 16:17

WEB

¹⁷Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”

KJV

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

BSB

¹⁷“Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”

FBV

¹⁷“Is this how you show loyalty to your friend?” Absalom asked. “Why didn't you leave with your friend?”

Extra References

2 Samuel 19:25

²⁵When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”

Deuteronomy 32:6

⁶Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

Proverbs 18:24

²⁴A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 17:17

¹⁷A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

³²When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his tunic torn and earth on his head. ³³David said to him, “If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me; ³⁴but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant; then you will defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.’ ³⁵Don’t you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore whatever you hear out of the king’s house, tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. ³⁶Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son. Send to me everything that you shall hear by them.”

³⁷So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.