2 Samuel 19:12
What does 2 Samuel 19:12 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 19:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
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?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862my brethren ye <FI>are<Fi> , my bone and my flesh ye <FI>are<Fi> , and why are ye last to bring back the king?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; and why will ye be 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.
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