2 Samuel 5:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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 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 19:13

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.’ ”

2 Samuel 19:14

Amasa swayed the hearts of all the people of Judah as one, and they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”

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 2:32

They took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are members of his body.

Deuteronomy 17:15

you may indeed set over you a king whom the Lord your God will choose. One of your own community you may set as king over you; you are not permitted to put a foreigner over you, who is not of your own community.

Hebrews 2:14

Since, therefore, the children share flesh and blood, he himself likewise shared the same things, so that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Joshua 10:36

Then Joshua went up with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron; they assaulted it

Judges 9:2

“Say in the hearing of all the lords of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”