2 Samuel 5:1

David Anointed As King Over All Of Israel

¹ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. ² Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the Lord said to you, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a ruler over Israel.’”

Flesh and Blood

Tribes of Israel

David

Hebron

Israel

1 Chronicles 11:1-3

Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

2 Samuel 19:13

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.’”

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

Deuteronomy 17:15

you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

Judges 9:2

“Speak, now, in the hearing of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or that one man rule over you?’ Also, remember that I am your bone and your flesh.”

1 Chronicles 12:23-40

Now these are the numbers of the divisions equipped for war, who came to David at Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of His body.

Hebrews 2:14

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,