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2 Samuel 19:12-14
New Catholic Bible
2 Samuel 19:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. Why then should you be the last to bring the king home?’
13 “And say to Amasa: ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh?[a] May God deal with me in the most severe way possible if from now on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab.’ ” 14 With those words, David won over the hearts of all the men of Judah as though they were one man, and they sent this message to the king: “Return, both you and all who serve you.”
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- 2 Samuel 19:13 My bone and my flesh: David displays his keen sense of diplomacy in replacing Joab and appointing Amasa as his commander, thereby, effecting the union of the kingdom which is what David was all about.