2 Samuel 19:12
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Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
In other translations
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
Hebrew words
אַחַי'achai[are] brothers myH251אַתֶּם'atemyouH859עַצְמִי'atzmi[are] bone myH6106וּבְשָׂרִיuvesariand flesh myH1320אַתֶּם'atemyouH859וְלָמָּהvelamahand <to> why?H4100תִהְיוּtihyuwill you beH1961אַחֲרֹנִים'acharonim[the] last [people]H314לְהָשִׁיבlehashivto bring backH7725אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853הַמֶּלֶךְ׃hamelekhthe kingH4428
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- 2 Samuel 5:1Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
- Judges 9:2Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
- Genesis 2:23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- Ephesians 5:30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.For we are members of His body.
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