11. Then King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah: ‘Why are you last to bring back the king to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king in his house.
12. My brothers, you are my bones and you are my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?’
13. To Amasa you shall say: ‘Are you not my bones and my flesh? May God punish me if you are not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.’ ”
14. So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent word to the king, “Return, you and all your servants.”
15. Then the king returned and he came to the Jordan; Judah had come to Gilgal to come to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.