19 Bible Verses about Knees

She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children.”

Then Joseph took them from his knees, and bowed with his face to the ground.

Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s sons; also the sons of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?

For thus says the Lord, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees.

She made him sleep on her knees, and called for a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his hair. Then she began to afflict him, and his strength left him.

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees.

The Lord will strike you on the knees and legs with sore boils, from which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen,’ declares the Lord God.”

My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

Then behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!

Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

“Your words have helped the tottering to stand,
And you have strengthened feeble knees.

Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the knees. Again he measured a thousand and led me through the water, water reaching the loins.

Then the king’s face grew pale and his thoughts alarmed him, and his hip joints went slack and his knees began knocking together.

But when Simon Peter saw that, he fell down at Jesus’ feet, saying, “Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!”