¹⁷ And Absalom saith unto Hushai, `This thy kindness with thy friend! why hast thou not gone with thy friend?'

²⁵ and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?'

⁶ To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.

³² And it cometh to pass, David hath come unto the top, where he boweth himself to God, and lo, to meet him `is' Hushai the Archite, his coat rent, and earth on his head;

³³ and David saith to him, `If thou hast passed on with me then thou hast been on me for a burden,

³⁴ and if to the city thou dost turn back, and hast said to Absalom, Thy servant I am, O king; servant of thy father I `am' also hitherto, and now, I `am' also thy servant; then thou hast made void for me the counsel of Ahithophel;

³⁵ and are there not with thee there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it hath been, the whole of the matter that thou hearest from the house of the king thou dost declare to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests.

³⁶ Lo, there with them `are' their two sons, Ahimaaz to Zadok, and Jonathan to Abiathar, and ye have sent by their hand unto me anything that ye hear.'

³⁷ And Hushai, David's friend, cometh in to the city, and Absalom cometh in to Jerusalem.

¹⁷ At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

²⁴ A man with friends `is' to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!