2 Samuel 19:13

Then say to Amasa, 'Are you not my flesh and my bone? God do so to me, and more also, if you are not captain of my army from now on in the place of Joab.'”

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And 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.

In Context

12You are my brothers, my flesh and bone. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

14So he won the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man. They sent to the king saying, “Return, you and all your men.”

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Cross References

Ruth 1:17Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Yahweh punish me, and even more, if anything but death ever separates us.”

2 Samuel 5:1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your flesh and bone.

2 Samuel 17:25Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of Jether the Ishmaelite + 17:25 Scholars disagree about whether the word describing Jether should be “Ishmaelite” as it is in some ancient Greek versions, or “Israelite” as it is in the ancient Hebrew text. Some scholars believe that “Israelite” is a scribal error in the Hebrew. “Ishmaelite” is the word used in a parallel passage (See: 1 Chron. 2:17), in both the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts. , who had slept with Abigail, who was the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab.

2 Samuel 19:5Then Joab entered into the house to the king and said to him, “You have shamed the faces of all your soldiers today, who have saved your life today, and the lives of your sons and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your slave wives,

1 Chronicles 2:16Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three of them.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 19:10-16

David's Return to the Jordan. ( b. c. 1023.) 9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom. 10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back? 11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why… Read the whole commentary →

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