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2Sa_5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh.
Ver. 1. Then came all the tribes,] i.e., Great numbers out of all tribes: out of Zebulun only, fifty thousand. {1Ch_12:33} Josephus saith {a} that Zebulun came full and whole: and the Scripture saith that they were not of a double heart. Christ’s subjects are a willing people; {Psa_110:3} they flee to him as clouds, and as doves to their windows, {Isa_60:8} and he reeeiveth them graciously, {Hos_14:2} though they had long stood out as these tribes had. Nimis sero te amavi. too slowly I had loved thee. {b}
Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.] We may boldly say the same to Christ, claiming kindred, inasmuch as he is "bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh." {Eph_5:30 Heb_2:15-16}
{a} Lib. vii. cap. 2.
{b} August.