2 Samuel 16:19
Good News Translation
After all, whom should I serve, if not my master's son? As I served your father, so now I will serve you."

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover, whom should I serve? Should it not be his son? Just as I have served your father, so I will serve you.”

Contemporary English Version
Besides, it seems right for me to serve you, just as I served your father."

New American Bible
Furthermore, as I was in attendance upon your father, so will I be before you. Whom should I serve, if not his son?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.

should I not serve

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.

1 Samuel 28:2 And David said to Achis: Now thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achis said to David: And I will appoint thee to guard my life for ever.

1 Samuel 29:8 And David said to Achis: But what have I done, or what hast thou found in me thy servant, from the day that I have been in thy sight until this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

Psalm 55:21 They are divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart hath drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and the same are darts.

Galatians 2:13 And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

Context
The Counsel of Ahithophel and Hushai
18And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will I abide. 19Besides this, whom shall I serve? is it not the king's son? as I have served thy father, so will I serve thee also.20And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.…
Cross References
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 16:18
And Chusai answered Absalom: Nay: for I will be his, whom the Lord hath chosen, and all this people, and all Israel, and with him will I abide.

2 Samuel 16:20
And Absalom said to Achitophel: Consult what we are to do.

2 Samuel 16:18
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