17 Then Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy [a]friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?

18 Hushai then answered unto Absalom, Nay, but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel choose, his will I be, and with them will I dwell.

19 And [b]moreover, unto whom shall I do service? not to his son? as I served before thy father, so will I before thee.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 16:17 Meaning, David.
  2. 2 Samuel 16:19 Hebrew, the second time.

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