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2 Samuel 16:17
17“Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him. “Why aren’t you 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 the army of Israel arrived at Jerusalem, accompanied by Ahithophel. 16When David’s friend Hushai the Arkite arrived, he went immediately to see Absalom. “Long live the king!” he exclaimed. “Long live the king!” “Is this the way you treat your friend David?” Absalom asked him. “Why aren’t you with him?” 18“I’m here because I belong to the man who is chosen by the Lord and by all the men of Israel,” Hushai replied. 19“And anyway, why shouldn’t I serve you? Just as I was your father’s adviser, now I will be your adviser!”
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 the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
- 2 Samuel 15:32When David reached the summit of the Mount of Olives where people worshiped God, Hushai the Arkite was waiting there for him. Hushai had torn his clothing and put dirt on his head as a sign of mourning.
- 2 Samuel 19:25“Why didn’t you come with me, Mephibosheth?” the king asked him.
- Proverbs 17:17A friend is always loyal, and a brother is born to help in time of need.
- Proverbs 18:24There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer 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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