Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?”
Parallel translations
- KJV And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
- BSB “Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?”
- NKJV So Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
- NASB But Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
- NLT “Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him. “Why aren’t you with him?”
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Cross-references · 5
- 2 Sam 19:25When he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
- Prov 18:24A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Prov 17:17A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
- 2 Sam 15:32–37When David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.
- Deut 32:6Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
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