2 Chronicles 25:17
Hebrew Text— 2 Chronicles 25:17Then Amaziah king of Judah consulted his advisers, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come! Let’s look one another in the face.”
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A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother.”
You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”
He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
A fool’s lips come into strife, and his mouth invites beatings.
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire.
Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and play before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”
Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”
He bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.
In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel. Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.
Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much plunder.
You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”
It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.
He who is quick to become angry will commit folly, and a crafty man is hated.
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.
Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn’t know it,
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.