2 Samuel 16:16
Good News Translation
When Hushai, David's trusted friend, met Absalom, he shouted, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

New Revised Standard Version
When Hushai the Archite, David’s friend, came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

Contemporary English Version
David's friend Hushai came to Absalom and said, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

New American Bible
When David’s friend Hushai the Archite came to Absalom, he said to him: “Long live the king! Long live the king!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.

God save the king.

1 Samuel 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.

1 Kings 1:25,34 Because he is gone down to day, and hath killed oxen, and fatlings, and many rams, and invited all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest: and they are eating and drinking before him, and saying: God save king Adonias: . . .

2 Kings 11:12 And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands, they said: God save the king.

Daniel 2:4 And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac: O king, live for ever: tell to thy servants thy dream, and we will declare the interpretation thereof.

Daniel 5:10 Then the queen, on occasion of what had happened to the king, and his nobles, came into the banquet-house: and she spoke, and said: O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, neither let thy countenance be changed.

Daniel 6:6,21 Then the princes, and the governors, craftily suggested to the king, and spoke thus unto him: King Darius, live for ever: . . .

Matthew 21:9 And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

Context
The Counsel of Ahithophel and Hushai
15But Absalom and all his people came into Jerusalem, and Achitophel was with him. 16And when Chusai the Arachite, David's friend, was come to Absalom, he said to him: God save thee, O king, God save thee, O king.17And Absalom said to him, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? Why wentest thou not with thy friend?…
Cross References
1 Samuel 10:24
And Samuel said to all the people: Surely you see him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people. And all the people cried and said: God save the king.

2 Samuel 15:34
But if thou return into the city, and wilt say to Absalom: I am thy servant, O king: as I have been thy father's servant, so I will be thy servant: thou shalt defeat the counsel of Achitophel.

2 Samuel 15:37
Then Chusai the friend of David went into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

2 Kings 11:12
And he brought forth the king's son, and put the diadem upon him, and the testimony: and they made him king, and anointed him: and clapping their hands, they said: God save the king.

2 Samuel 16:15
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