2 Samuel 5:1

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2 Samuel 5:1

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

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1 Chronicles 11:1

1 Chronicles 12:23

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General references

2 Samuel 6:1

2 Samuel 16:18

Bible References

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Later on, all of Israel gathered together at Hebron in order to tell David, "Look, we're your own flesh and blood!

What follows is a listing of the divisions of battle-ready troops who joined David in Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him, in accordance with what the LORD had spoken.

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Then ask Amasa, "Aren't you my own flesh and blood? So may God deal with me, no matter how severely, if from this day forward you don't take Joab's place as commander of my army.'

Laban responded, "You certainly are my flesh and blood!" So Jacob stayed with him for about a month.

You will certainly set a king over you, whom the LORD your God will choose from among your relatives, but you must not place a foreign king over you who is not from your relatives.

"Ask all the "lords" of Shechem, "What's better for you? That 70 men, each of them Jerubbaal's sons, rule over you? Or that one man rule over you?' Keep in mind that I'm like your own close relative."

For we are parts of his body of his flesh and of his bones.

Therefore, since the children have flesh and blood, he himself also shared the same things, so that by his death he might destroy the one who has the power of death (that is, the Devil)

General references

After this, David gathered together again 30,000 men from all of the choicest men of Israel.

Hushai replied, "No! On the contrary, whomever the LORD, this group, and all the men of Israel choose is where I'll be, and I'll remain with him!