2 Samuel 19:10-12

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁰ But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?”

¹¹ King David sent this message to the priests Zadok and Abiathar, “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king.^{[a] 12} You are my kin, you are my bone and my flesh; why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’