2 Samuel 5:1
Good News Translation
Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and said to him, "We are your own flesh and blood.

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

Contemporary English Version
Israel's leaders met with David at Hebron and said, "We are your relatives.

New American Bible
All the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, and they said: “Look! We are your bone and your flesh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

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1 Chronicles 11:1-3 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh. . . .

1 Chronicles 12:23-40 And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to David, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul, according to the word of the Lord. . . .

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2 Samuel 19:13 And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

Genesis 29:14 He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

Deuteronomy 17:15 Thou shalt set him whom the Lord thy God shall choose out of the number of thy brethren. Thou mayst not make a man of another nation king, that is not thy brother.

Judges 9:2 Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.

Ephesians 5:30 Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Hebrews 2:14 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

Context
David Anointed King over Israel
1Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.2Moreover yesterday also and the day before, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that did lead out and bring in Israel: and the Lord said to thee: Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be prince over Israel.…
Cross References
Genesis 29:14
He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,

Joshua 10:36
He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought against it:

2 Samuel 19:12
You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?

2 Samuel 19:13
And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.

2 Samuel 19:43
And the men of Israel answered the men of Juda, and said: I have ten parts in the king more than thou, and David belongeth to me more than to thee: why hast thou done me a wrong, and why was it not told me first, that I might bring back my king? And the men of Juda answered more harshly than the men of Israel.

1 Chronicles 11:1
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.

1 Chronicles 12:38
All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.

2 Samuel 4:12
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