2 Samuel 19:12

Modern

You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

Traditional

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Literal

My brothers you are, my bone and you are my flesh. And why are you the last to bring back the king?’

Latin

Fratres mei vos, os meum, et caro mea vos, quare novissimi reducitis regem?

Hebrew

English

You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

When David saw that the northern tribes would accept him (2 Samuel 19:9–10), he sent messengers to encourage Judah, his own people, to accept him too. See also study note on 2 Samuel 19:41–43.

Theme notes and profiles

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of His body.
Judges 9:2
“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 2:23
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.”