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Hushai said to Absalom, “No; but whomever the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, I will be his, and I will stay with him.
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Verse 18. Chosen. (Vox populi, vox Dei) Private people are not commonly able, or allowed, to judge of the right, which the prince has to the throne. But here Absalom was manifestly an usurper; and many still adhered to David. Calmet.—Chusai assumes the character of a courtier, and flatters the prince; (Salien) who ought to have been on his guard. See Calmet. 15:34. Calmet.
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