Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
Holman Bible
All Israel
International Standard Version
Later on, all of Israel gathered together at Hebron in order to tell David, "Look, we're your own flesh and blood!
American Standard Version
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
Amplified
Bible in Basic English
Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.
Darby Translation
And all Israel assembled themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
Julia Smith Translation
And all Israel will gather together to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we thy bone and thy flesh.
King James 2000
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, "Look--we are your flesh and bones.
Modern King James verseion
And all Israel gathered to David, to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, and said, "See, we be thy bones and thy flesh.
NET Bible
All Israel joined David at Hebron and said, "Look, we are your very flesh and blood!
New Heart English Bible
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
The Emphasized Bible
Then did all Israel gather themselves together to David, unto Hebron, saying, - Lo! thy bone and thy flesh, are we.
Webster
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
World English Bible
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
Youngs Literal Translation
And gathered are all Israel unto David to Hebron, saying, 'Lo, thy bone and thy flesh are we;
Interlinear
Qabats
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 11:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Anointing Of David As King
1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. 2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was thou who led out and brought in Israel. And LORD thy God said to thee, Thou shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and thou shall be ruler over my people Israel.
Cross References
Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, Surely thou are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
Numbers 13:22
And they went up by the South, and came to Hebron. And Ahaiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Deuteronomy 17:15
thou shall surely set him king over thee whom LORD thy God shall choose. Thou shall set a king over thee from among thy brothers. Thou may not put a foreigner over thee who is not thy brother.
Judges 9:2
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Which is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy men, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
2 Samuel 2:1
And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And LORD said to him, Go up. And David said, Where shall I go up? And he said, To Hebron.
2 Samuel 5:1-16
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 15:10
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom is king in Hebron.
2 Samuel 19:12-13
Ye are my brothers, ye are my bone and my flesh. Why then are ye the last to bring back the king?
1 Kings 2:11
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 12:23-40
And these are the numbers of the heads of those who were armed for war, who came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of LORD.
Ephesians 5:30
because we are parts of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.