2 Samuel 19:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² You are my kin; you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² You are my kinsmen; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Common English Bible

¹² You are my relatives! You are my flesh and bones! Why should you be the last to bring the king back?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why are you the last to lead back the king?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² You are my brethren: you are my bone, and my flesh: Why are you the last to bring back the king?

2 Samuel 19:12 Cross References

Genesis 2:23

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken.”

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 19:41

Then all the people of Israel came to the king and said to him, “Why have our kindred the people of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan and all David’s men with him?”

2 Samuel 19:42

All the people of Judah answered the people of Israel, “Because the king is near of kin to us. Why then are you angry over this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has he given us any gift?”

2 Samuel 5:1

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh.

2 Samuel 8:17

Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was secretary;

Romans 11:14

in order to make my own people jealous and thus save some of them.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

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.”