2 Samuel 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
KJV
Et venerunt universæ tribus Israël ad David in Hebron, dicentes : Ecce nos os tuum et caro tua sumus.
Vulgate
Καὶ παραγίνονται πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ Ἰσραὴλ πρὸς Δαυεὶδ εἰς Χεβρὼν καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ Ἰδοὺ ὀστᾶ σου καὶ σάρκες σου ἡμεῖς.
LXX
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
ASV
וַ/יָּבֹ֜אוּ כָּל שִׁבְטֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל דָּוִ֖ד חֶבְר֑וֹנָ/ה וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר הִנְ/נ֛וּ עַצְמְ/ךָ֥ וּֽ/בְשָׂרְ/ךָ֖ אֲנָֽחְנוּ
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
12 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Covers David's reign: his lament over Saul and Jonathan, the capture of Jerusalem, the bringing of the Ark, the Davidic covenant, the sin with Bathsheba, Absalom's rebellion, and David's final years. Josephus treats David as both a military genius and a flawed ruler.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 11:1 — Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
- 2Sam 19:12 — Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
- 2Sam 19:13 — And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
- 2Sam 19:43 — And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first
- Gen 2:23 — And 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.
- Gen 29:14 — And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.
- Gen 29:14 — And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.