2 Samuel 5:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

2 Samuel 19:12

You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

2 Samuel 19:14

And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.

2 Samuel 19:43

And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of the men of Judah were more violent than the words of the men of Israel.

2 Samuel 2:32

And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.

Ephesians 5:30

Because we are parts of his body.

Deuteronomy 17:15

Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

Hebrews 2:14

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Joshua 10:36

And Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron, and made an attack on it;

Judges 9:2

Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.