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 Amasa, (B)‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? (C)God do so to me and more also, if you are not (D)commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’” 14 And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah (E)as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”

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