Judges 9:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

"Speak to all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you: that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And consider also that I am your bone and your flesh."

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

he responded, "You are my bone and my flesh." And after the days of one month were completed,

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa: 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do these things, and may he add these other things, if you will not be the leader of the military in my sight, for all time, in the place of Joab.' "

1 Chronicles 11:1

Then all of Israel was gathered to David at Hebron, saying: "We are your bone and your flesh.

Ephesians 5:30

For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

Hebrews 2:14

Therefore, because children have a common flesh and blood, he himself also, in like manner, has shared in the same, so that through death, he might destroy him who held the dominion of death, that is, the devil,

Judges 8:30

And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives.

Judges 9:18

though you now have risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have appointed Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, as a king over the inhabitants of Shechem, since he is your brother,

Judges 9:5

And he went to his father's house in Ophrah, and he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone. And there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, and he was in hiding.