21 Bible Verses about Bones Broken

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

A ruler can be persuaded through patience,
and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

God brought him out of Egypt;
He is like the horns of a wild ox for them.
He will feed on enemy nations
and gnaw their bones;
he will strike them with his arrows.

I thought until the morning:
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.

ב BetHe has worn away my flesh and skin;
He has shattered my bones.

Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil person;
call his wickedness into account
until nothing remains of it.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
but the Lord supports the righteous.

Moab’s horn is chopped off; his arm is shattered.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Then they will be filled with terror—
terror like no other—
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.

You divided the sea with Your strength;
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters;

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged—no medicine has been applied and no splint put on to bandage it so that it can grow strong enough to handle a sword.

Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him as a mortally wounded man.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

The king then gave the command, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions’ den—they, their children, and their wives. They had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

You eat the flesh of my people
after you strip their skin from them
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like flesh for the cooking pot,
like meat in a cauldron.”

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.