Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

And gathered are all Israel unto David to Hebron, saying, 'Lo, thy bone and thy flesh are we;

New American Standard Bible

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

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 came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

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!

A Conservative Version

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

American Standard Version

Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Amplified

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

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

קבץ 
Qabats 
Usage: 127

דּויד דּוד 
David 
Usage: 1074

חברון 
Chebrown 
Usage: 71

עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Anointing Of David As King

1 And gathered are all Israel unto David to Hebron, saying, 'Lo, thy bone and thy flesh are we; 2 even in time past, even in Saul's being king, it is thou who art taking out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah thy God saith to thee: Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art leader over My people Israel.'

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

and Laban saith to him, 'Only my bone and my flesh art thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days.

Numbers 13:22

and they go up by the south, and come in unto Hebron, and there are Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, children of Anak (and Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt),

Deuteronomy 17:15

thou dost certainly set over thee a king on whom Jehovah doth fix; from the midst of thy brethren thou dost set over thee a king; thou art not able to set over thee a stranger, who is not thy brother.

Judges 9:2

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the masters of Shechem, Which is good for you -- the ruling over you of seventy men (all the sons of Jerubbaal), or the ruling over you of one man? -- and ye have remembered that I am your bone and your flesh.'

2 Samuel 2:1

And it cometh to pass afterwards, that David asketh at Jehovah, saying, 'Do I go up into one of the cities of Judah?' and Jehovah saith unto him, 'Go up.' And David saith, 'Whither do I go up?' and He saith, 'To Hebron.'

2 Samuel 5:1-16

And all the tribes of Israel come unto David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, 'Lo, we are thy bone and thy flesh;

2 Samuel 15:10

and Absalom sendeth spies through all the tribes of Israel, saying, 'At your hearing the voice of the trumpet, then ye have said, Absalom hath reigned in Hebron.'

2 Samuel 19:12-13

my brethren ye are, my bone and my flesh ye are, and why are ye last to bring back the king?

1 Kings 2:11

and the days that David hath reigned over Israel are forty years, in Hebron he hath reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he hath reigned thirty and three years.

1 Chronicles 12:23-40

And these are the numbers of the head, of the armed men of the host; they have come in unto David to Hebron to turn round the kingdom of Saul unto him, according to the mouth of Jehovah.

Ephesians 5:30

because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

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