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So be it, said Gedeon; when the Lord has given me the mastery of Zebee and Salmana, I will come back and flay you with every thorn and brier that grows in the desert. (Judges 8, 7)
They were to send the word round in Sichem, Which is best, to have seventy masters over you, all Jerobaal’s sons, or one? He was, after all, their own flesh and blood. (Judges 9, 2)
Where the blood of slain men, the flesh of warriors beckoned, never the bow of Jonathan hung back, never the sword of Saul went empty from the feast. (2 Samuel 1, 22)
He bade them, too, give this message to Amasa, Art thou not my own flesh and blood? May the Lord punish me as I deserve, and more than I deserve, if I do not make thee, instead of Joab, commander of my army henceforward! (2 Samuel 19, 13)
So, rising from his prayer, he laid himself down on the dead body, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands, bending down close, till the boy’s flesh grew warm. (2 Kings 4, 34)
where Eliseus sent word out to him, Go and bathe seven times in the Jordan, if thou wouldst have health restored to thy flesh, and be clean. (2 Kings 5, 10)
So down he went, and washed in the Jordan seven times, as the servant of God had bidden him. And with that, his flesh healed up, and became like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. (2 Kings 5, 14)
And then, my son’s flesh already cooked and eaten, when I bade her kill hers next day, she kept him in hiding. (2 Kings 6, 29)
Two hundred thousand captives the men of Israel took, women, and boys, and girls, their own flesh and blood, with much booty besides, and conveyed them to Samaria. (2 Chronicles 28, 8)
Be guided by me; take the captives home, that are your own flesh and blood; if not, a bitter punishment from the Lord awaits you. (2 Chronicles 28, 11)
I reminded them that we in Babylon had been at pains to ransom our Jewish brethren who were enslaved to the heathen; must we now ransom them anew, from masters of their own flesh and blood? At this, there was silence; nothing could they find to say.✻ (Nehemiah 5, 8)
Their flesh the fire shall scorch, the worm shall devour; lament they must and bear their pain for ever. (Judith 16, 21)
