21 As charcoal to embers and as wood to fire,
    so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.(A)

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22 An angry person stirs up conflict,
    and a hot-tempered person commits many sins.(A)

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18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,(A)
    but the one who is patient calms a quarrel.(B)

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33 For as churning cream produces butter,
    and as twisting the nose produces blood,
    so stirring up anger produces strife.”

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12 Hatred stirs up conflict,
    but love covers over all wrongs.(A)

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He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

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20 When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.(A)

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When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled(A) from King Solomon), he returned from[a] Egypt. So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:2 Or he remained in

Sheba Rebels Against David

20 Now a troublemaker named Sheba son of Bikri, a Benjamite, happened to be there. He sounded the trumpet and shouted,

“We have no share(A) in David,(B)
    no part in Jesse’s son!(C)
Every man to his tent, Israel!”

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