Verse 2

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.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 29:14 : 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.
• Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.
• 2 Sam 19:13 : 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 Chr 11:1 : 1 Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron, and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.
• Eph 5:30 : 30 Because we are parts of his body.
• Heb 2:14 : 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;