Catholic Public Domain Version
"You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why are you the last to lead back the king?’ "
— 2 Samuel 19:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?”
“Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king? ”
“You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'”
“You are my brothers– my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’”
“You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?”
“You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?”
“Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?”
And all the people were conflicted, in all the tribes of Israel, saying: “The king has freed us from the hand of our enemies. He himself saved us from the hand of the Philistines. But now he flees from the land for the sake of Absalom.
But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, has died in the war. How long will you be silent, and not lead back the king?”
Then truly, king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, saying: “Speak to those greater by birth of Judah, saying: ‘Why have you arrived last to lead back the king into his house? (For the talk in all of Israel had reached the king in his house.)
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why are you the last to lead back the king?’
And say to Amasa: ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do these things, and may he add these other things, if you will not be the leader of the military in my sight, for all time, in the place of Joab.’ ”
And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah, as if one man. And they sent to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
And the king returned. And he went as far as the Jordan, and all of Judah went as far as Gilgal, so as to meet the king, and to lead him across the Jordan.