2 Samuel 19:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? So may God do to me and more, if you are not the commander of my army from now on, in place of Joab.’ ”

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 17:25

Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 18:11

Joab said to the man who told him, “What, you saw him! Why then did you not strike him there to the ground? I would have been glad to give you ten pieces of silver and a belt.”

2 Samuel 20:4

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

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gateway to speak with him privately, and there he stabbed him in the stomach. So he died on account of the blood of Asahel, Joab’s brother.

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 8:16

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

1 Kings 19:2

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”

1 Chronicles 12:18

Then the spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said, “We are yours, O David, and with you, O son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you! For your God is the one who helps you.” Then David received them and made them officers of his troops.

Ruth 1:17

Where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus to me, and more as well, if even death parts me from you!”