“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him
Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from now on you are not th
For we are members of His body.