I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

Then Laban said to him, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord’s temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? God will punish me severely, if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”