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Friends
Friends [NAVE]
FRIENDS, Jesus calls his disciples, John 15:14, 15.False Friends
Instances of: Pharaoh's butler false to Joseph, Gen. 40:23.
Delilah to Samson, Judg. 16:1-20.
The Ephraimite's wife, Judg. 19:1-2.
David to Joab, 1 Kin. 2:5, 6; to Uriah, 2 Sam. 11.
Ahithophel to David, 2 Sam. 15:12.
David's friends to David, Psa. 35:11-16; 41:9; 55:12-14, 20, 21; 88:8, 18.
Judas, Matt. 26:48, 49.
Disciples, Matt. 26:56, 58.
See: Hypocrisy.
FRIENDS; CHIEF FRIENDS [ISBE]
FRIENDS; CHIEF FRIENDS - (hoi philoi proton): Expressions used in 1 and 2 Macc to designate the favored courtiers of the Antiochi. Mattathias is promised enrollment among the king's Friends, to tempt him to apostatize (1 Macc 2:18); Alexander Balas writes Jonathan among his Chief Friends (1 Macc 10:65). Compare also 1 Macc 3:38; 6:10,14; 10:60; 11:26,27; 2 Macc 8:9.