Notice what the writer calls him even while he bows to the usurper: "Hushai the Archite, David's friend." His words…Notice what the writer calls him even while he bows to the usurper: "Hushai the Archite, David's friend." His words say "Long live the king!" but his heart is still climbing the Mount of Olives with a barefoot, weeping David.
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