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

Romans 11:14
If, by any means, I may provoke to emulation them who are my flesh and may save some of them.

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

2 Samuel 5:1
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 19:41
Therefore all the men of Israel running together to the king, said to him: Why have our brethren the men of Juda stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him?

2 Samuel 19:42
And all the men of Juda answered the men of Israel: Because the king is nearer to me: why art thou angry for this matter? have we eaten any thing of the king's, or have any gifts been given us?

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You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?

my bones

2 Samuel 5:1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Genesis 2:23 And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

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.

Context
David Restored as King
11And king David sent to Sadoc, and Abiathar the priests, saying: Speak to the ancients of Juda, saying: Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? (For the talk of all Israel was come to the king in his house.) 12You are my brethren, you are my bone, and my flesh, why are you the last to bring back the king?13And 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.…
Lexicon
You
אַתֶּ֔ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

are my brothers,
אַחַ֣י (’a·ḥay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

my own flesh
וּבְשָׂרִ֖י (ū·ḇə·śā·rî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

and blood.
עַצְמִ֥י (‘aṣ·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

So why
וְלָ֧מָּה (wə·lām·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

should you
אַתֶּ֑ם (’at·tem)
Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

be
תִהְי֛וּ (ṯih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

the last
אַחֲרֹנִ֖ים (’a·ḥă·rō·nîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 314: Hinder, late, last, western

to restore
לְהָשִׁ֥יב (lə·hā·šîḇ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

the king?’
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ (ham·me·leḵ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4428: A king


Additional Translations
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’You are my brothers, you are my bones and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

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

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why are ye the last to bring back the king to his house?

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; and why will ye be the last to bring back the king?

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

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

You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

my brethren ye are, my bone and my flesh ye are, and why are ye last to bring back the king?
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