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1 Chronicles 11:1

World English Bible

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

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1 Chronicles 11:1 in other translations

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

1 Chronicles 11:1 · American Standard Version

1 Chronicles 11:1 in context

  1. 1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
  2. 2In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. Yahweh your God said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over my people Israel.’ ”
  3. 3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.