2 Samuel 16:17
And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
2 Samuel 16:17 in other translations
| BSB | “Is this the loyalty you show your friend?” Absalom replied. “Why did you not go with your friend?” |
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| WEB | Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your kindness to your friend? Why didn’t you go with your friend?” |
| ASV | And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend? |
| YLT | And Absalom saith unto Hushai, ‘This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?' |
| DARBY | And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why didst thou not go with thy friend? |
| BBE | And Absalom said, Is this your love for your friend? why did you not go with your friend? |
| Webster | And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend? |
What does 2 Samuel 16:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 16:15-19
15-19. 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…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 16:15-23
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…
2 Samuel 16:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 16:17
- 2 Samuel 19:25
And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
- Proverbs 17:17
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
- Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- Deuteronomy 32:6
Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?
- 2 Samuel 15:32-37
And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head: Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me: But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father’s servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests. …
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Context
- 2 Samuel 16:16
And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, was come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the king, God save the king.
- 2 Samuel 16:17
And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?
- 2 Samuel 16:18
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom the Lord, and this people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
2 Samuel 16:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y Absalom dijo á Husai: ¿Este es tu agradecimiento para con tu amigo? ¿por qué no fuiste con tu amigo? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Absalom dit à Hushaï: Est-ce là ta bonté pour ton ami? Pourquoi n’es-tu pas allé avec ton ami? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Absalom sprach zu Husai: Ist das deine Güte an deinem Freunde? Warum bist du nicht mit deinem Freunde gegangen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ad quem Absalom: Hæc est, inquit, gratia tua ad amicum tuum? quare non ivisti cum amico tuo? |