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2 Samuel 16:16-18
Lexham English Bible
2 Samuel 16:16-18
Lexham English Bible
16 When Hushai the Arkite the friend of David came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king, long live the king!” 17 Absalom said to Hushai, “This is your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?” 18 Then Hushai said to Absalom, “No, rather, whom Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, to him[a] I will be, and with him I will remain.
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- 2 Samuel 16:18 According to the reading tradition (Qere); Kethib has “no”
2 Samuel 16:16-18
New International Version
2 Samuel 16:16-18
New International Version
16 Then Hushai(A) the Arkite, David’s confidant, went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
17 Absalom said to Hushai, “So this is the love you show your friend? If he’s your friend, why didn’t you go with him?”(B)
18 Hushai said to Absalom, “No, the one chosen by the Lord, by these people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and I will remain with him.
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