13 Say to (A)Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? (B)May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be (C)commander of the army before me continually (D)in place of Joab.’” 14 Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah (E)as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.” 15 The king then returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah came to (F)Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to bring the king across the Jordan.

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