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2 Samuel 19:12

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
2 Samuel 19:12 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

    ASV

  • You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

    BBE

  • Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; and why will ye be the last to bring back the king?

    DBY

  • You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

    WEB

  • my brethren ye `are', my bone and my flesh ye `are', and why are ye last to bring back the king?

    YLT

  • All of you are my brethren, all of you are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are all of you the last to bring back the king?

    ENG

  • Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

    WBT

  • You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

    BSB

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, even to his house.

12Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of 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 this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.

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