And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? why went you not with your friend?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Friend. He rather accuses him of treachery. (Haydock)
But he does not mention the name of king, or of father, lest it should too plainly speak his own condemnation, as an ungrateful rebel. (Salien)