12. You are my kinsmen; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then are you the last to bring back the king?
13. And say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone and of my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of my army hereafter in place of Joab.
14. He inclined the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so they sent word to [him], Return, you and all your servants.
15. So [David] returned and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal to meet the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
16. And Shimei son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, hastily came down with the men of Judah to meet King David,
17. And 1,000 men of Benjamin with him. And Ziba, the servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him, rushed to the Jordan and pressed quickly into the king's presence.