Verse 2

"Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, 'Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 29:14 : 14 Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh." He lived with him for a month.
  • Judg 8:30 : 30 Gideon had seventy sons conceived from his body; for he had many wives.
  • 2 Sam 19:13 : 13 Say to Amasa, 'Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the army before me continually in the room of Joab.'"
  • 1 Chr 11:1 : 1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, "Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
  • Eph 5:30 : 30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.
  • Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,