2 Samuel 17:5

WEB

⁵Then Absalom said, “Now call Hushai the Archite also, and let’s hear likewise what he says.”

KJV

⁵Then said^[+] Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

BSB

⁵Then Absalom said, “Summon Hushai the Archite as well, and let us hear what he too has to say.”

FBV

⁵But then Absalom said, “Call in Hushai the Archite too, and let's hear what he's got to say as well.”

Extra References

2 Samuel 15:32-37

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.

2 Samuel 16:16-19

¹⁶When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, had come to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

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

¹⁸Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him. ¹⁹Again, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t I serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”