¹² You are my brothers; ^(A)you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

David Anointed King of Israel

5 Then all the tribes of Israel ^(A)came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, ^(B)we are your bone and flesh.

³⁰ because ^(A)we are members of his body.

² “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all ^(A)seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that ^(B)I am ^(C)your bone and your flesh.”

²³ Then the man said,