Sinai2 Samuel 19:12
American Standard Version
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
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2 Samuel 19:12 in other translations
You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
2 Samuel 19:12 in context
- 10And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
- 11And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.
- 12Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
- 13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
- 14And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.