You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! 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 with human bones.

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

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

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

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart 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. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

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

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

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

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

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

I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, 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 into you and you will live.

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

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear, “God will surely attend to you, and you will carry 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 is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,