2 Samuel 19:13 - Tree of Life Version

¹³ ‘You are my kinsmen, my bone and my flesh! Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ And say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone and of my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army hereafter in place of Joab.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

Common English Bible

¹³ And tell Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and bones too? May God deal harshly with me and worse still if you don’t become commander of my army from now on instead of Joab!’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And say to Amasa: 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do these things, and may he add these other things, if you will not be the leader of the military in my sight, for all time, in the place of Joab.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

2 Samuel 19:13 Cross References

Genesis 29:14

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

2 Samuel 17:25

Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. (Now Amasa was son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had gone to Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.)

2 Samuel 18:11

Then Joab said to his informant, “Look here, you saw him, so why didn’t you strike him there to the ground? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a belt!”

2 Samuel 20:4

Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon to me the men of Judah within three days and be here yourself.”

2 Samuel 3:27

Now when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside within the gate to speak with him privately, and there stabbed him in the groin, so that he died—on account of the blood of his brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 5:1

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and spoke saying, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

2 Samuel 8:16

Joab son of Zeruiah was commander over the army; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder;

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah saying, “So let the gods do to me and worse if by this time tomorrow I don’t make your life like the life of one of them.”

1 Chronicles 12:18

David went out to meet them and answered them saying, “If you come to me in peace to support me, then my heart will be united with you. But if it is to betray me to my adversaries, when my hands have done no wrong, then may the God of our fathers take notice and judge.”

Ruth 1:17

Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May Adonai deal with me, and worse, if anything but death comes between me and you!”