God’s Word Translation
2 Samuel 16:17
17“Is that how loyal you are to your friend?” Absalom asked Hushai. “Why didn’t you 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
15Meanwhile, Absalom and all Israel’s troops came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. 16When David’s friend Hushai from Archi’s family came to Absalom, he said, “Long live the king! Long live the king!” “Is that how loyal you are to your friend?” Absalom asked Hushai. “Why didn’t you go with him?” 18Hushai answered Absalom, “No, I want to be with the one whom the Lord, these people, and all Israel have chosen. I will be his ⌞friend⌟ and stay with him. 19And besides, whom should I serve? Shouldn’t it be his son? As I served your father, so I’ll serve you.”
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 32:6Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and silly people? Isn’t he your Father and Owner, who made you and formed you?
- 2 Samuel 15:32When David came to the top ⌞of the Mount of Olives⌟ where people worshiped God, Hushai from Archi’s family was there to meet him. His clothes were torn, and he had dirt on his head.
- 2 Samuel 19:25When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Why didn’t you go with me, Mephibosheth?”
- Proverbs 17:17A friend always loves, and a brother is born to share trouble.
- Proverbs 18:24Friends can destroy one another, but a loving friend can stick closer than family.
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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