'Bones' in the Bible
The man said,“This is now bone of my bones,And flesh of my flesh;She shall be called Woman,Because she was taken out of Man.”
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”
Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you.”
“God brings him out of Egypt,He is for him like the horns of the wild ox.He will devour the nations who are his adversaries,And will crush their bones in pieces,And shatter them with his arrows.
Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
then David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.
He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of those who had been hanged.
They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.
He cried against the altar by the word of the Lord, and said, “O altar, altar, thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.’”
After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
As they were burying a man, behold, they saw a marauding band; and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha. And when the man touched the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet.
He broke in pieces the sacred pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with human bones.
Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.
He said, “Let him alone; let no one disturb his bones.” So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.
All the priests of the high places who were there he slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them; then he returned to Jerusalem.
all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars and purged Judah and Jerusalem.
Dread came upon me, and trembling,And made all my bones shake.
Clothe me with skin and flesh,And knit me together with bones and sinews?
“His bones are full of his youthful vigor,But it lies down with him in the dust.
His sides are filled out with fat,And the marrow of his bones is moist,
“At night it pierces my bones within me,And my gnawing pains take no rest.
“My skin turns black on me,And my bones burn with fever.
“Man is also chastened with pain on his bed,And with unceasing complaint in his bones;
“His flesh wastes away from sight,And his bones which were not seen stick out.
“His bones are tubes of bronze;His limbs are like bars of iron.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.
I am poured out like water,And all my bones are out of joint;My heart is like wax;It is melted within me.
All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Make me to hear joy and gladness,Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.
There they were in great fear where no fear had been;For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.
For my days have been consumed in smoke,And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Because of the loudness of my groaningMy bones cling to my flesh.
But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,And it entered into his body like waterAnd like oil into his bones.
As when one plows and breaks open the earth,Our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
It will be healing to your bodyAnd refreshment to your bones.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.
A tranquil heart is life to the body,But passion is rottenness to the bones.
Bright eyes gladden the heart;Good news puts fat on the bones.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb,Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
A joyful heart is good medicine,But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things.
“I composed my soul until morning.Like a lion—so He breaks all my bones,From day until night You make an end of me.
“And the Lord will continually guide you,And satisfy your desire in scorched places,And give strength to your bones;And you will be like a watered garden,And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad,And your bones will flourish like the new grass;And the hand of the Lord will be made known to His servants,But He will be indignant toward His enemies.
“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.
But if I say, “I will not remember HimOr speak anymore in His name,”Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fireShut up in my bones;And I am weary of holding it in,And I cannot endure it.
As for the prophets:My heart is broken within me,All my bones tremble;I have become like a drunken man,Even like a man overcome with wine,Because of the LordAnd because of His holy words.
“Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven them away. The first one who devoured him was the king of Assyria, and this last one who has broken his bones is Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
“From on high He sent fire into my bones,And it prevailed over them.He has spread a net for my feet;He has turned me back;He has made me desolate,Faint all day long.
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,He has broken my bones.
Their appearance is blacker than soot,They are not recognized in the streets;Their skin is shriveled on their bones,It is withered, it has become like wood.
I will also lay the dead bodies of the sons of Israel in front of their idols; and I will scatter your bones around your altars.
Put in it the pieces,Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;Fill it with choice bones.
“Take the choicest of the flock,And also pile wood under the pot.Make it boil vigorously.Also seethe its bones in it.”
“Heap on the wood, kindle the fire,Boil the flesh wellAnd mix in the spices,And let the bones be burned.
Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, You know.”
Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’
Thus says the Lord God to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope has perished. We are completely cut off.’
The king then gave orders, and they brought those men who had maliciously accused Daniel, and they cast them, their children and their wives into the lions’ den; and they had not reached the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Thus says the Lord,“For three transgressions of Moab and for fourI will not revoke its punishment,Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned.”
“You who hate good and love evil,Who tear off their skin from themAnd their flesh from their bones,
Who eat the flesh of my people,Strip off their skin from them,Break their bonesAnd chop them up as for the potAnd as meat in a kettle.”
I heard and my inward parts trembled,At the sound my lips quivered.Decay enters my bones,And in my place I tremble.Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,For the people to arise who will invade us.