2 Samuel 19:12-14

Tree of Life Version

¹² Then King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar the kohanim saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah saying, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his palace? The talk of all Israel had reached the king at his residence. ¹³ ‘You are my kinsmen, my bone and my flesh! Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

¹⁴ “Also say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me and even more if you do not become my army commander before me continually, in place of Joab!’”