2 Samuel 19:12
2 Samuel chapter 19 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
Context
v.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.
v.12This passage
v.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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 2:23
And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
- 2 Samuel 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
- Ephesians 5:30
because we are members of his body.
- Judges 9:2
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.