Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
2 Samuel 19:12
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You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
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Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
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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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Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
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2 Samuel 19
10 But Absalom, the man we anointed over us, has died in battle. So why do you say nothing about restoring the king?”
11 Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
12 You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
13 And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
14 So he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent word to the king: “Return, you and all your servants.”
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