Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
1 Chronicles 11:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Then all Yisra'el gathered themselves to David to Chevron, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THEN [after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, who ruled over eleven tribes of Israel for two troubled years after Saul's death] all Israel gathered at Hebron and said to David, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh. [II Sam. 2:8-10.] American Standard Version (1901) Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh. Common English Bible All the Israelites gathered around David at Hebron. “We’re your own flesh and blood,” they said. Catholic Public Domain Version Then all of Israel was gathered to David at Hebron, saying: "We are your bone and your flesh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh. |
Lavan said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
But Avshalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Yisra'el, saying, As soon as you hear the sound of the shofar, then you shall say, Avshalom is king in Chevron.
It happened after this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Yehudah? the LORD said to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To Chevron.
The days that David reigned over Yisra'el were forty years; seven years reigned he in Chevron, and thirty-three years reigned he in Yerushalayim.
They went up by the South, and came to Chevron; and Achiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of `Anak, were there. (Now Chevron was built seven years before Tzo`an in Egypt.)
you shall surely set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.
Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shekhem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Yerubba`al, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.