2 Samuel 19:12

New Century Version

You are my brothers, my own family. Why are you the last tribe to bring back the king?'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You are my brothers, my flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’

Hebrew Names Version
You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

King James Version
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

Lexham English Bible
My brothers, you are my bones and you are my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'

English Standard Version
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

New English Translation
You are my brothers—my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?'

Amplified Bible
'You are my brothers (relatives, relations); you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

New American Standard Bible
'You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye are my brethren: my bones and my flesh are ye: wherefore then are ye the last that bring the King againe?

Legacy Standard Bible
You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to have the king return?'

Contemporary English Version
He is your brother, your own relative! Why haven't you done anything to bring him back?"

Complete Jewish Bible
King David sent this message to Tzadok and Evyatar the cohanim: "Ask the leaders of Y'hudah, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his palace? The king has already heard that all Isra'el wants to return him to his palace.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
You are my brothers, my family, so why are you the last tribe to bring the king back?'

George Lamsa Translation
And the king said to them, You are my brethren and my flesh and my bones, why then are you the last to return to the king?

Good News Translation
You are my relatives, my own flesh and blood; why should you be the last to bring me back?"

Literal Translation
You are my brother; you are my bone and my flesh. And why are you the last to bring back the king?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
ye are my brethren, my bone, and my flesh. Wherfore wyl ye then be the last to brynge the kynge agayne?

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

Bible in Basic English
You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye are my brethren, my bones, and my fleshe: Wherfore then are ye the last that bryng the king againe?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying: 'Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying: Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house?--For the speech of all Israel was come to the king, to bring him to his house.--

King James Version (1611)
Yee are my brethren, Yee are my bones and my flesh: wherfore then are ye the last to bring backe the king?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why are ye the last to bring back the king to his house?

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

Berean Standard Bible
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye ben my britheren, ye ben my boon and my fleisch; whi the laste bryngen ye ayens the kyng?

Young's Literal Translation
my brethren ye [are], my bone and my flesh ye [are], and why are ye last to bring back the king?

Update Bible Version
You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

World English Bible
You are my brothers, you are my bone and my flesh: why then are you the last to bring back the king?

New King James Version
You are my brethren, you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?'

New Living Translation
You are my relatives, my own tribe, my own flesh and blood! So why are you the last ones to welcome back the king?"

New Life Bible
You are my brothers. You are my bone and my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?'

New Revised Standard
You are my kin, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mine own brethren, are ye, my bone and my flesh, are ye, - wherefore then should ye be behindhand in bringing back the king?

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

Revised Standard Version
You are my kinsmen, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?'

Contextual Overview

⁹ People in all the tribes of Israel began to argue, saying, "The king saved us from the Philistines and our other enemies, but he left the country because of Absalom. ¹⁰ We appointed Absalom to rule us, but now he has died in battle. We should make David the king again." ¹¹ King David sent a message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, that said, "Speak to the elders of Judah. Say, ‘Even in my house I have heard what all the Israelites are saying. So why are you the last tribe to bring the king back to his palace? ¹² You are my brothers, my own family. Why are you the last tribe to bring back the king?' ¹³ And say to Amasa, ‘You are part of my own family. May God punish me terribly if I don't make you commander of the army in Joab's place!'" ¹⁴ David touched the hearts of all the people of Judah at once. They sent a message to the king that said, "Return with all your men." ¹⁵ Then the king returned as far as the Jordan River. The men of Judah came to Gilgal to meet him and to bring him across the Jordan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my bones: 2 Samuel 5:1, Genesis 2:23, Judges 9:2, Ephesians 5:30

Reciprocal: Genesis 29:14 - art my 2 Samuel 19:42 - Because 1 Chronicles 11:1 - Behold

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and said to his future sons-in-law who were pledged to marry his daughters, "Hurry and leave this city! The Lord is about to destroy it!" But they thought Lot was joking.

Genesis 19:17
After they brought them out of the city, one of the men said, "Run for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Run to the mountains, or you will be destroyed."

Genesis 19:22
But run there fast, because I cannot destroy Sodom until you are safely in that town." (That town is named Zoar, because it is little.)

Genesis 19:23
The sun had already come up when Lot entered Zoar.

Numbers 16:26
Moses warned the people, "Move away from the tents of these evil men! Don't touch anything of theirs, or you will be destroyed because of their sins."

Jeremiah 32:39
I will make them truly want to be one people with one goal. They will truly want to worship me all their lives, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

2 Peter 2:7
But he saved Lot from those cities. Lot, a good man, was troubled because of the filthy lives of evil people.

2 Peter 2:9
So the Lord knows how to save those who serve him when troubles come. He will hold evil people and punish them, while waiting for the Judgment Day.

Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying: "Come out of that city, my people, so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive the disasters that will come to her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye [are] my brethren, ye [are] my bones and my flesh,.... Being of the same tribe, and therefore he should deal gently with them, as if they were parts of his body; and not be severe upon them, for the hand they had in the conspiracy, as they might fear:

and wherefore then are ye the last to bring the king back? since they were so nearly related to him, and he so ready to forgive them.