12 You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why are you the last to lead back the king?'
13 And say to Amasa: 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do these things, and may he add these other things, if you will not be the leader of the military in my sight, for all time, in the place of Joab.'
14 And he inclined the heart of all the men of Judah, as if one man. And they sent to the king, saying, 'Return, you and all your servants.'
15 And the king returned. And he went as far as the Jordan, and all of Judah went as far as Gilgal, so as to meet the king, and to lead him across the Jordan.
16 And Shimei, the son of Gera, the son of Benjamin, from Bahurim, hurried and descended with the men of Judah to meet king David,
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