You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! ¹  Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines ¹  with human bones.

All Israel joined David at Hebron and said, “Look, we are your very flesh and blood! ¹ 

He burned the bones of the pagan priests ¹  on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

Have mercy on me, ¹  Lord, for I am frail! Heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking! ² 

My strength drains away like water; ¹  all my bones are dislocated; my heart ²  is like wax; it melts away inside me.

For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. ¹  My strength fails me because of ²  my sin, and my bones become brittle. ³ 

My whole body is sick because of your judgment; ¹  I am deprived of health because of my sin. ² 

My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, ¹  as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?” ² 

For my days go up in smoke, ¹  and my bones are charred like a fireplace. ² 

I cry out ¹  until morning; like a lion he shatters all my bones; you turn day into night and end my life. ² 

ז (Zayin) Her consecrated ones ¹  were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies more ruddy than corals, their hair ²  like lapis lazuli. ³ 

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, ¹  and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

add the pieces of meat to it, every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder; fill it with choice bones.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said to him, “Sovereign Lord, you know.”

This is what the sovereign Lord says to these bones: Look, I am about to infuse breath ¹  into you and you will live.

yet you ¹  hate what is good, ²  and love what is evil. ³  You flay my people’s skin ⁴  and rip the flesh from their bones. ⁵ 

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph ¹  had made the Israelites solemnly swear, ²  “God will surely attend ³  to you, and you will carry ⁴  my bones up from this place with you.”

After he buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet ¹  is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,