Judges 9:2

Modern English Version

“Please say in the hearing of all of the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, to have all seventy sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or for one man to rule over you? Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him for a month.

2 Samuel 19:13

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do to me, and more so, if you are not commander of the army before me from now on in the place of Joab.’ ”

1 Chronicles 11:1

Then all Israel assembled before David at Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.

Hebrews 2:14

So then, as the children share in flesh and blood, He likewise took part in these, so that through death He might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Judges 8:30

Gideon had seventy sons, for he had many wives.

Judges 9:18

Yet you have taken a stand against my father’s family today. You killed his seventy sons, each on a single stone. You made Abimelech, son of his slave woman, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal, on a single stone. Yet Jotham, the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, survived because he hid himself.