2 Samuel 16:18
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Hushai said to Absalom, No; but whom Yahweh, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
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Jerusalem was David’s royal city, where Absalom had seized power and where Hushai declared loyalty to the reigning king. The Jordan and Mount of Olives frame David’s recent flight from Jerusalem, highlighting the crisis in which Hushai’s counsel would serve God’s preservation of David’s kingdom.
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2 Samuel 16:18 mentions Jerusalem, Jordan and Mount of Olives.
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