2 Samuel 19:10-12

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁰ “And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle! Therefore, why are you so slow to bring the king back?”

¹¹ But King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar, the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah, and say, ‘Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house, since the saying of all Israel has come to the king, to his house?

¹² ‘You are my brethren. My bones and my flesh are yours. Why, then, are you the last who bring the king back?’