Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
Threescore
Bible References
Threescore
Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons born to him, because he had many wives.
Your bone
Genesis 29:14
Then Laban said to him, “You are my bone and my flesh.” And Jacob stayed with him a month.
2 Samuel 19:13
Say to Amasa [the commander of Absalom’s troops], ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”
1 Chronicles 11:1 Then all Israel gathered to David at Hebron, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
Ephesians 5:30
because we are members (parts) of His body.
Hebrews 2:14
Therefore, since [these His] children share in flesh and blood [the physical nature of mankind], He Himself in a similar manner also shared in the same [physical nature, but without sin], so that through [experiencing] death He might make powerless (ineffective, impotent) him who had the power of death—that is, the devil—