Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
- KJV Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
- ESV Then all Israel gathered together to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
- NKJV Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, saying, “Indeed we are your bone and your flesh.
- NASB Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
- NLT Then all Israel gathered before David at Hebron and told him, “We are your own flesh and blood.
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Quick answer
All Israel gathered to David at Hebron and acknowledged him as their kinsman and rightful king. The nation united under God's chosen ruler.
Overview
After Saul's death, the whole nation comes to David, confessing 'we are your bone and your flesh,' a covenant kinship formula. The Chronicler skips David's earlier years reigning only over Judah and presents an idealized, united Israel embracing its God-given king. This anticipates the gathering of God's people, both Jew and Gentile, to Christ, who shares our flesh and blood as our brother and King.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Deut 17:15you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.
- 1 Chr 12:23–40Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:
- 1 Kgs 2:11The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Sam 15:10Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”
- Gen 29:14Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
- 2 Sam 5:1–16Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
- Judg 9:2“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
- 2 Sam 19:12–13You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
- Eph 5:30For we are members of His body.
- Num 13:22They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
- 2 Sam 2:1Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD.
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