Proverbs 25:28
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28 A person without self-control
is like a city with broken-down walls.
Proverbs 16:32
New Living Translation
32 Better to be patient than powerful;
better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
Proverbs 22:24
New Living Translation
24 Don’t befriend angry people
or associate with hot-tempered people,
Nehemiah 1:3
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3 They said to me, “Things are not going well for those who returned to the province of Judah. They are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem has been torn down, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
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2 Chronicles 32:5
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5 Then Hezekiah worked hard at repairing all the broken sections of the wall, erecting towers, and constructing a second wall outside the first. He also reinforced the supporting terraces[a] in the City of David and manufactured large numbers of weapons and shields.
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- 32:5 Hebrew the millo. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
1 Samuel 20:30
New Living Translation
30 Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan. “You stupid son of a whore!”[a] he swore at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want him to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother?
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- 20:30 Hebrew You son of a perverse and rebellious woman.
1 Samuel 25:17
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17 You need to know this and figure out what to do, for there is going to be trouble for our master and his whole family. He’s so ill-tempered that no one can even talk to him!”
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