Verse 2

“Tell all the leaders of Shechem this:‘Why would you want to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’”

Referenced Verses

• Gen 29:14 : 14 Then Laban said to him,“You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.
• Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.
• 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 Say to Amasa,‘Are you not my flesh and blood? God will punish me severely, if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
• 1 Chr 11:1 : 1 David Becomes King All Israel joined David at Hebron and said,“Look, we are your very flesh and blood!
• Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death(that is, the devil),