¹² You are my brothers; ^(A)you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’ ¹³ And say to ^(B)Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^(C)May God do so to me, and more so, if you will not be ^(D)commander of the army ^[a]for me continually, ^(E)in place of Joab.’” ¹⁴ So he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah ^(F)as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”