1 Chronicles 11:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ THEN [after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, who ruled over eleven tribes of Israel for two troubled years after Saul's death] all Israel gathered at Hebron and said to David, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. [II Sam. 2:8-10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Common English Bible

¹ All the Israelites gathered around David at Hebron. “We’re your own flesh and blood,” they said.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Then all of Israel was gathered to David at Hebron, saying: "We are your bone and your flesh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.

1 Chronicles 11:1 Cross References

Genesis 29:14

and Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

2 Samuel 15:10

But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then shout: Absalom has become king at Hebron!”

2 Samuel 2:1

After this David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” The Lord said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” He said, “To Hebron.”

1 Kings 2:11

The time that David reigned over Israel was forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

Numbers 13:22

They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron, and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the Anakites, were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Deuteronomy 17:15

you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.

Judges 9:2

“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”