2 Samuel 17:5 Cross References - CLV

⁵ And Absalom said, `Call, I pray you, also for Hushai the Archite, and we hear what [is] in his mouth--even he..

³² And it comes to pass, David has come unto the top, where he bows himself to Elohim, and lo, to meet him [is] Hushai the Archite, his coat rent, and earth on his head;" ³³ and David said to him, `If you have passed on with me then you have been on me for a burden, ³⁴ and if to the city you do turn back, and have said to Absalom, Your servant I am, O king; servant of your father I [am] also hitherto, and now, I [am] also your servant; then you have made void for me the counsel of Ahithophel;" ³⁵ and are there not with you there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it has been, the whole of the matter that you hear from the house of the king you do 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 you have sent by their hand unto me anything that you hear.. ³⁷ And Hushai, David's friend, comes in to the city, and Absalom comes in to Jerusalem.

¹⁶ and it comes to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, has come unto Absalom, that Hushai said unto Absalom, `Let the king live! let the king live!. <sup>17</sup> And Absalom said unto Hushai, `This your kindness with your friend! why have you not gone with your friend?. ¹⁸ And Hushai said unto Absalom, `Nay, for he whom Yahweh has chosen, and this people, even all the men of Israel, his I am, and with him I abide;" ¹⁹ and secondly, for whom do I labor? is it not before his son? as I served before your father so am I before you..