2 Samuel 19:42

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:12

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

2 Samuel 19:43

But the people of Israel answered the people of Judah, “We have ten shares in the king, and in David also we have more than you. Why then did you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of bringing back our king?” But the words of the people of Judah were fiercer than the words of the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 2:4

Then the people of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the people of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”

2 Samuel 5:1

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

Judges 8:1

Then the Ephraimites said to him, “What have you done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against the Midianites?” And they upbraided him violently.