12. You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’
13. And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”
14. And he swayed the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, “Return, both you and all your servants.”
15. So the king came back to the Jordan, and Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the Jordan.
16. And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, from Bahurim, hurried to come down with the men of Judah to meet King David.