And all the tribes of Israel will come to David to Hebron, and they will say, saying, Behold us thy bone and thy flesh.

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

And to Amass. ye shall say, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? thus will God do to me and thus will he add, if thou shalt not be chief of the army before me all the days, instead of Joab.