Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye are my brethren, my bones and my flesh: wherefore then should ye be the last that should come to bring the king home again?'

New American Standard Bible

You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

King James Version

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Holman Bible

You are my brothers, my flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

International Standard Version

You're my relatives! You're my own flesh and blood! So why are you the last to bring back the king?'

A Conservative Version

Ye are my brothers, ye are my bone and my flesh. Why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

American Standard Version

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Amplified

You are my brothers (relatives, relations); you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?’

Bible in Basic English

You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Ye my brethren; my bone and flesh are ye: and wherefore will ye be last to turn back the king?

King James 2000

You are my brethren, you are my bones and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

Lexham Expanded Bible

My brothers, you [are] my bones and you [are] my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'

Modern King James verseion

You are my brothers, and my flesh and my bone. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?

NET Bible

You are my brothers -- my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?'

New Heart English Bible

You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

The Emphasized Bible

Mine own brethren, are ye, my bone and my flesh, are ye, - wherefore then should ye be behindhand in bringing back the king?

Webster

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

World English Bible

You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye are my brethren
אח 
'ach 
Usage: 629

ye are my bones
עצם 
`etsem 
Usage: 126

and my flesh
בּשׂר 
Basar 
Usage: 270

אחרן אחרין 
'acharown 
Usage: 50

to bring back
שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

References

Fausets

Context Readings

David Returns From Exile

11 And king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak unto the elders of Judah and say, 'Why should ye be the last that should bring again the king to his house, seeing that such tidings is come from all Israel unto the king, even to his house? 12 Ye are my brethren, my bones and my flesh: wherefore then should ye be the last that should come to bring the king home again?' 13 And say to Amasa, 'Art thou not my bone and my flesh? And God do so to me and so thereto: except thou be captain of the host to me forever in the room of Joab.'"

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:1

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and said, "See, we are thy bones and thy flesh.

Genesis 2:23

Then said Adam, "This is once bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. This shall be called woman: because she was taken of the man."

Judges 9:2

"Say, I pray you, in the ears of all the inhabiters of Shechem: whether is better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal which are seventy persons reign over you, either that one reign over you. And remember thereto, that I am your bones and your flesh."

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

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