Sinai2 Samuel 19:12
World English Bible
You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
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2 Samuel 19:12 in other translations
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 19:12 in context
- 10Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don’t you speak a word of bringing the king back?”
- 11King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? Since the speech of all Israel has come to the king, to return him to his house.
- 12You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’
- 13Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”
- 14He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”