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Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
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Proverbs 16:14
The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
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1 Samuel 25 24-1 Samuel 25 44
She fell at his feet, and said,“ On me, my lord, on me be the blame! Please let your servant speak in your ears. Hear the words of your servant.Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights Yahweh’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.It will come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you prince over Israel,that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”David said to Abigail,“ Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, who have kept me today from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”So David received from her hand that which she had brought him. Then he said to her,“ Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.”Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.About ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,“ Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.When David’s servants had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying,“ David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.”She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said,“ Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
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1 Samuel 25 14
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying,“ Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he insulted them.
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Genesis 32:4-21
He commanded them, saying,“ This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau:‘ This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’”The messengers returned to Jacob, saying,“ We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;and he said,“ If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”Jacob said,“ God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me,‘ Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good,’I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.You said,‘ I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,thirty milk camels and their colts, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten foals.He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants,“ Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd.”He commanded the foremost, saying,“ When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying,‘ Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?’Then you shall say,‘ They are your servant, Jacob’s. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.’”He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying,“ This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.You shall say,‘ Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’” For, he said,“ I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.
