2 Samuel 5:1

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Summary

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.

Came

1 Chronicles 11:1

1 Chronicles 12:23

We

General references

2 Samuel 6:1

2 Samuel 16:18

Bible References

Came

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron. They said: Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.

These are the numbers of armed warriors who joined David at Hebron. They were all eager to see David become king instead of Saul, just as Jehovah had promised.

We

Say to Amasa: 'Are you my flesh and blood? May God strike me dead unless you are given Joab's place to serve me always as the commander of the army.'

Laban said: You are indeed my own flesh and blood. Jacob stayed there a whole month.

you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

Ask the men of Shechem: 'Which is better for you. To have all seventy of Gideon's sons govern you or to have just one man? Remember that Abimelech is your own flesh and blood.'

And we are members of his body!

Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also took part of the same things, that through death he might destroy him that had the power to cause death, [Satan] the Devil.

General references

Once again David called together the best soldiers in Israel, a total of thirty thousand men.

Hushai answered: Jehovah and the people of Israel have chosen you to be king. I cannot leave. I must stay and serve the one they have chosen.