2 “Speak, please, in the hearing of all the landowners* of Sheʹchem, ‘Which is better for YOU, for seventy men,+ all the sons of Jer·ub·baʹal, to rule over YOU or for one man to rule over YOU? And YOU must remember that YOUR bone and YOUR flesh I am.’”+

5 In time all the tribes of Israel came to David+ at Heʹbron+ and said: “Look! We ourselves are your bone and your flesh.+