Judges 9:2

New Century Version

“Ask the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for the seventy sons of Gideon to rule over you or for one man to rule?’ Remember, I am your relative.”

Cross References

Genesis 29:14

Then Laban said, “You are my own flesh and blood.” Jacob stayed there a month.

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘You are part of my own family. May God punish me terribly if I don’t make you commander of the army in Joab’s place!’ ”

1 Chronicles 11:1

Then the people of Israel came to David at the town of Hebron and said, “Look, we are your own family.

Ephesians 5:30

because we are parts of his body.

Hebrews 2:14

Since these children are people with physical bodies, Jesus himself became like them. He did this so that, by dying, he could destroy the one who has the power of death—the devil—

Judges 8:30

He had seventy sons of his own, because he had many wives.

Judges 9:18

But now you have turned against my father’s family and have killed his seventy sons on one stone. You have made Abimelech, the son of my father’s slave girl, king over the leaders of Shechem just because he is your relative!

Judges 9:5

He went to Ophrah, the hometown of his father, and murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Gideon. He killed them all on one stone. But Gideon’s youngest son, Jotham, hid from Abimelech and escaped.