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.