¹¹ And King David sent this message to ^(A)Zadok and Abiathar the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house, when the word of all Israel has come to the king?^[a]

¹² You are my brothers; ^(A)you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’