12 Perhaps Adonai will look on my affliction and return good to me for his cursing this day.”
13 So David and his men continued on the way, while Shimei kept walking alongside the hill parallel with him, cursing as he walked, casting stones at him and throwing dirt.
14 Finally the king and all the people that were with him arrived weary, so he refreshed himself there.
15 Meanwhile Absalom and all the people of the men of Israel arrived in Jerusalem. Ahithophel was with him.
16 Now when David’s friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
17 But Absalom said to Hushai, “Is this your loyalty to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
18 “No!” said Hushai to Absalom. “For the one whom Adonai has chosen—as well as these people, all the men of Israel—his I will be and with him I will stay.