2 Samuel 19:13

God's Word

And tell Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God strike me dead unless you are given Joab’s place to serve me always as the commander of the army.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” Jacob stayed with him for a whole month.

2 Samuel 17:25

Absalom appointed Amasa to take Joab’s place as commander of the army. (Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, a descendant of Ishmael. His mother was Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Joab’s mother Zeruiah.)

2 Samuel 18:11

“What! You saw that!” Joab said to the man who told him. “Why didn’t you strike him to the ground? Then I would have felt obligated to give you four ounces of silver and a belt.”

2 Samuel 20:4

The king told Amasa, “Call the people of Judah together for me, and in three days be here yourself.”

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway as if to talk to him privately. There he stabbed Abner in the belly. Abner died because he spilled the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 5:1

All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron. “We are your own flesh and blood,” they said.

2 Samuel 8:16

Zeruiah’s son Joab was in charge of the army. Ahilud’s son Jehoshaphat was the royal historian.

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah. She said, “May the gods strike me dead if by this time tomorrow I don’t take your life the way you took the lives of Baal’s prophets.”

1 Chronicles 12:18

Then the Spirit gave Amasai, the leader of the thirty, the strength ⌞to say⌟, “We are yours, David. We are with you, son of Jesse. Success, success to you! Success to those who help you, because your God is helping you.” So David welcomed them and made them officers over his troops.

Ruth 1:17

Wherever you die, I will die, and I will be buried there with you. May the Lord strike me down if anything but death separates you and me!”