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Proverbs 25:15
A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
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Proverbs 29:22
An angry person stirs up conflict, and a hot-tempered one increases rebellion.
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Proverbs 15:18
A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but one slow to anger calms strife.
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Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up conflicts, but love covers all offenses.
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Proverbs 28:25
A greedy person stirs up conflict, but whoever trusts in the LORD will prosper.
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1 Kings 12 13-1 Kings 12 16
Then the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice the elders had given himand spoke to them according to the young men’s advice:“ My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with barbed whips.”The king did not listen to the people, because this turn of events came from the LORD to carry out his word, which the LORD had spoken through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him: What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Israel, return to your tents; David, now look after your own house! So Israel went to their tents,
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Judges 8:1-3
The men of Ephraim said to him,“ Why have you done this to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?” And they argued with him violently.So he said to them,“ What have I done now compared to you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?God handed over to you Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he said this, their anger against him subsided.
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1 Samuel 25 21-1 Samuel 25 33
David had just said,“ I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness for nothing. He was not missing anything, yet he paid me back evil for good.May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his males survive until morning.”When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey and knelt down with her face to the ground and paid homage to David.She knelt at his feet and said,“ The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.My lord should pay no attention to this worthless fool Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name means‘ stupid,’ and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Now my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live— it is the LORD who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand— may your enemies and those who intend to harm my lord be like Nabal.Let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the LORD’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.“ Someone is pursuing you and intends to take your life. My lord’s life is tucked safely in the place where the LORD your God protects the living, but he is flinging away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.When the LORD does for my lord all the good he promised you and appoints you ruler over Israel,there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the LORD does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!May your discernment be blessed, and may you be blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.
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1 Samuel 25 10-1 Samuel 25 13
Nabal asked them,“ Who is David? Who is Jesse’s son? Many slaves these days are running away from their masters.Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t know where they are from.”David’s young men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.He said to his men,“ All of you, put on your swords!” So each man put on his sword, and David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David while two hundred stayed with the supplies.
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Judges 12:3-6
When I saw that you weren’t going to deliver me, I took my life in my own hands and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD handed them over to me. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”Then Jephthah gathered all of the men of Gilead. They fought and defeated Ephraim, because Ephraim had said,“ You Gileadites are Ephraimite fugitives in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said,“ Let me cross over,” the Gileadites asked him,“ Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered,“ No,”they told him,“ Please say Shibboleth.” If he said,“ Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and executed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim died.
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2 Samuel 19 43
The men of Israel answered the men of Judah,“ We have ten shares in the king, so we have a greater claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Weren’t we the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the words of the men of Judah were harsher than those of the men of Israel.
