THEOSIS2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 5:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh.
וַיָּבֹ֜אוּ כָּל־שִׁבְטֵ֧י יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל־דָּוִ֖ד חֶבְר֑וֹנָה וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לֵאמֹ֔ר הִנְנ֛וּ עַצְמְךָ֥ וּֽבְשָׂרְךָ֖ אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃
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- 1 Chr 11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.
- 1 Chr 11:3So all the ancients of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and David made a covenant with them before the Lord: and they anointed him king over Israel according to the word of the Lord which he spoke in the hand of Samuel.
- Eph 5:30Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.
- 2 Sam 19:13And 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.
- Gen 29:14He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
- 1 Chr 12:23And this is the number of the chiefs of the army who came to David, when he was in Hebron, to transfer to him the kingdom of Saul, according to the word of the Lord.
- 1 Chr 12:40Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.
- Heb 2:14Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: