Judges 9:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

1 Chronicles 11:1

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.

Ephesians 5:30

Because we are parts of his body.

Hebrews 2:14

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

Judges 8:30

Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

Judges 9:18

And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;

Judges 9:5

Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.