THEOSISJudges 9:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerobaal, should rule over you, or that one man should rule over you? And withal, consider that I am your bone, and your flesh.
דַּבְּרוּ־נָ֞א בְּאָזְנֵ֨י כָל־בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶם֮ מַה־טּ֣וֹב לָכֶם֒ הַמְשֹׁ֨ל בָּכֶ֜ם שִׁבְעִ֣ים אִ֗ישׁ כֹּ֚ל בְּנֵ֣י יְרֻבַּ֔עַל אִם־מְשֹׁ֥ל בָּכֶ֖ם אִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֑ד וּזְכַרְתֶּ֕ם כִּֽי־עַצְמֵכֶם וּבְשַׂרְכֶ֖ם אָנִֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 8:30And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.
- Gen 29:14He answered: Thou art my bone and my flesh. And after the days of one month were expired,
- Heb 2:14Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:
- 1 Chr 11:1Then all Israel gathered themselves to David in Hebron, saying: We are thy bone, and thy flesh.
- 2 Sam 19:13And say ye to Amasa: Art not thou my bone, and my flesh? So do God to me and add more, if thou be not the chief captain of the army before me always in the place of Joab.
- Eph 5:30Because we are members of him, body, of his flesh and of his bones.