Proverbs 26:21
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21 A quarrelsome person starts fights
as easily as hot embers light charcoal or fire lights wood.
Proverbs 29:22
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22 An angry person starts fights;
a hot-tempered person commits all kinds of sin.
Proverbs 15:18
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18 A hot-tempered person starts fights;
a cool-tempered person stops them.
Proverbs 30:33
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33 As the beating of cream yields butter
and striking the nose causes bleeding,
so stirring up anger causes quarrels.
Proverbs 10:12
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12 Hatred stirs up quarrels,
but love makes up for all offenses.
Psalm 120:4
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4 You will be pierced with sharp arrows
and burned with glowing coals.
1 Kings 12:20
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20 When the people of Israel learned of Jeroboam’s return from Egypt, they called an assembly and made him king over all Israel. So only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the family of David.
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1 Kings 12:2-3
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2 When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard of this, he returned from Egypt,[a] for he had fled to Egypt to escape from King Solomon. 3 The leaders of Israel summoned him, and Jeroboam and the whole assembly of Israel went to speak with Rehoboam.
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- 12:2 As in Greek version and Latin Vulgate (see also 2 Chr 10:2); Hebrew reads he lived in Egypt.
2 Samuel 20:1
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The Revolt of Sheba
20 There happened to be a troublemaker there named Sheba son of Bicri, a man from the tribe of Benjamin. Sheba blew a ram’s horn and began to chant:
“Down with the dynasty of David!
We have no interest in the son of Jesse.
Come on, you men of Israel,
back to your homes!”
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