'Bones' in the Bible

Then the man said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place."

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, "God will surely attend to you, and you will carry my bones up from this place with you."

They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a young bull; they will devour hostile people and will break their bones and will pierce them through with arrows.

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.

They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh; then they fasted for seven days.

he went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines publicly exposed their corpses after they had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.

They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers for the land.

With the authority of the Lord he cried out against the altar, "O altar, altar! This is what the Lord says, 'Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'"

After he buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,

One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha's tomb. When the body touched Elisha's bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord's announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

The king said, "Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him.

He sacrificed all the priests of the high places on the altars located there, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

a trembling gripped me -- and a terror! -- and made all my bones shake.

You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

My bones stick to my skin and my flesh; I have escaped alive with only the skin of my teeth.

His bones were full of his youthful vigor, but that vigor will lie down with him in the dust.

his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

Have mercy on me, Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking!

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! May the bones you crushed rejoice!

For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

Because of the anxiety that makes me groan, my bones protrude from my skin.

He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

A noble wife is the crown of her husband, but the wife who acts shamefully is like rottenness in his bones.

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.

"At that time Jacob's splendor will be greatly diminished, and he will become skin and bones.

The light of the full moon will be like the sun's glare and the sun's glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, when the Lord binds up his people's fractured bones and heals their severe wound.

I cry out until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life.

The Lord says, "When that time comes, the bones of the kings of Judah and its leaders, the bones of the priests and prophets and of all the other people who lived in Jerusalem will be dug up from their graves.

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.

"The people of Israel are like scattered sheep which lions have chased away. First the king of Assyria devoured them. Now last of all King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has gnawed their bones.

(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper's net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

(Khet) Now their appearance is darker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it is dried up, like tree bark.

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Take the choice bone of the flock, heap up bones under it; boil rapidly, and boil its bones in it.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones, when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and placed me in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones.

He made me walk all around among them. I realized there were a great many bones in the valley and they were very dry.

He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said to him, "Sovereign Lord, you know."

Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath into you and you will live.

So I prophesied as I was commanded. There was a sound when I prophesied -- I heard a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all the house of Israel. Look, they are saying, 'Our bones are dry, our hope has perished; we are cut off.'

The king gave another order, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions' den -- they, their children, and their wives. They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

This is what the Lord says: "Because Moab has committed three crimes -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They burned the bones of Edom's king into lime.

This is what the Lord says: "Just as a shepherd salvages from the lion's mouth a couple of leg bones or a piece of an ear, so the Israelites who live in Samaria will be salvaged. They will be left with just a corner of a bed, and a part of a couch."

When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house, "Is anyone else with you?" He will respond, "Be quiet! Don't invoke the Lord's name!"

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

You devour my people's flesh, strip off their skin, and crush their bones. You chop them up like flesh in a pot -- like meat in a kettle.

I listened and my stomach churned; the sound made my lips quiver. My frame went limp, as if my bones were decaying, and I shook as I tried to walk. I long for the day of distress to come upon the people who attack us.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

Look at my hands and my feet; it's me! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones like you see I have."

and their bones were later moved to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a certain sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.