EasyEnglish Bible 2018
2 Samuel 16:17
17Absalom asked Hushai, ‘Why have you not been faithful to your friend David? Why did you not go with him?’
2 Samuel 16:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
- New International Version (NIV)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?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Absalom said to Hushai, "Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
Context of 2 Samuel 16:17
15So Absalom and all the Israelites who were with him arrived in Jerusalem. Ahithophel came with him. 16David's friend, Hushai the Arkite, had also come there. He went to Absalom and he said to him, ‘May the king live for ever! May the king live for ever!’ Absalom asked Hushai, ‘Why have you not been faithful to your friend David? Why did you not go with him?’ 18Hushai replied, ‘No, I will serve you. You are the king that the Lord has chosen. And all these people and the men of Israel have chosen you too. So I will stay with you. 19I served your father when he was king. So now it is surely right for me to serve you, his son.’
Read all of 2 Samuel 162 Samuel 16:17 word by word
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אַבְשָׁלוֹם֙ אֶל־חוּשַׁ֔י זֶ֥ה חַסְדְּךָ֖ אֶת־רֵעֶ֑ךָ לָ֥מָּה לֹֽא־הָלַ֖כְתָּ אֶת־רֵעֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 2 Samuel 16:17
- Deuteronomy 32:6You are fools who do not understand what is right. You should not do these things against the Lord. He is your Father, the one who created you. He made you become a strong nation.
- 2 Samuel 15:32David arrived at the top of the hill. It was a place where people worshipped God. Hushai, who was an Arkite, met him there. He had torn his clothes and he had dirt on his head.
- 2 Samuel 19:25When he arrived from Jerusalem to meet the king, David asked him, ‘Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?’
- Proverbs 17:17A friend will always show that he loves you. Relatives are there to help you when you are in trouble.
- Proverbs 18:24A man with many friends may lose them. But there is a friend who is more faithful than a brother.
Commentaries on 2 Samuel 16:17
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-23Verses 15-23 The wisest counsellors of that age were Ahithophel and Hushai: Absalom thinks himself sure of success, when he has both; on them he relies, and consults not the ark, though he had that with him. But miserable counsellors were they both. Hushai would never counsel him to do wisely. Ahithophel counselled him to do wickedly; and so did as effectually betray him, as he did, who was designedly false to him: for they that advise men to sin…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1915-19. Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king--Hushai's devotion to David was so well-known, that his presence in the camp of the conspirators excited great surprise. Professing, however, with great address, to consider it his duty to support the cause which the course of Providence and the national will had seemingly decreed should triumph, and urging his friendship for the father as a ground of confidence in his fidelity to the son, he persuaded…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Samuel 16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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