Proverbs 17:14 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁴ As one letteth loose a stream of water, so is the beginning of strife: therefore before it be enkindled, leave off the contest.

⁸ And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are near relatives. ⁹ Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right, then I will go to the left.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said unto him, What is this thing that thou hast done unto us, not to call for us, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they quarrelled with him vehemently. ² And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi’ezer? ³ Into your hand God delivered the princes of Midian, ‘Oreb and Zeeb: and what have I been able to do in comparison with you? Then was their anger abated from him, when he had spoken this speech.

¹ And the men of Ephraim were called together, and went northward, and said unto Yiphthach, Wherefore didst thou pass over to fight against the children of ‘Ammon, and didst not call for us to go with thee? thy house will we burn over thee with fire. ² And Yiphthach said unto them, I and my people were greatly engaged in strife with the children of ‘Ammon; and I called you, but ye helped me not out of their hand. ³ And when I saw that ye helped me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over to the children of ‘Ammon, and the Lord delivered them into my hand; and why then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me? ⁴ Then Yiphthach gathered together all the men of Gil’ad, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gil’ad smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim: Gil’ad is in the midst, between Ephraim and Menasseh. ⁵ And the Gil’adites seized on the passages of the Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it came to pass, when the Ephraimites who had escaped said, Let me pass over; that the men of Gil’ad said unto him, Art thou an Ephrathite? and if he said, No; ⁶ Then said they unto him, Do say, Shibboleth; but when he said, Sibboleth, and was not able to pronounce it correctly, they laid hold of him and slew him on the passages of the Jordan; and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

¹⁴ And Abner said to Joab, Do let the young men rise up and play before us. And Joab said, They may rise up. ¹⁵ Then they rose up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David. ¹⁶ And they grasped every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; and they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Chelkath-hazzurim, which is by Gib’on. ¹⁷ And the battle was exceedingly fierce on that day; and Abner with the men of Israel was beaten, before the servants of David.

^{41 (19:42)} And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have conducted the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?

¹⁴ And he spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add thereto; my father chastised you with whips, but I will do it with scorpion-thorns. ¹⁵ And the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was so brought about from God, in order that the Lord might fulfill his word, which he had spoken by means of Achiyahu the Shilonite unto Jerobo’am the son of Nebat. ¹⁶ So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? nor have we an inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel; now, see to thy own house, David. So did all Israel go to their tents.

¹⁷ And Abiyah and his people smote them with a great defeat, and there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

¹⁷ Then held Amazyahu the king of Judah a council, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoachaz, the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face. ¹⁸ And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amazyahu the king of Judah, saying, The thorn-bush that was in the Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in the Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son for wife. And there passed along the wild beasts that were in the Lebanon, and trod down the thorn-bush. ¹⁹ Thou hast thought, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart hath lifted thee up to acquire much glory: now stay in thy house; why wilt thou meddle with misfortune, that thou mayest fall, thou, and Judah with thee? ²⁰ But Amazyahu would not hear; for it was ordained by God, in order to deliver them into the hand of Joash; because they had sought after the gods of Edom. ²¹ Thereupon did Joash the king of Israel go up: and they looked one another in the face, he and Amazyahu the king of Judah, at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah. ²² And Judah was defeated before Israel, and they fled every man to his tents. ²³ And Joash the king of Israel caught Amazyahu the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoachaz, at Beth-shemesh; and he brought him to Jerusalem, and made a breach in the wall of Jerusalem, from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner-gate, four hundred cubits. ²⁴ And taking all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with ‘Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, and the children of the chiefs as hostages, he returned to Samaria.

⁶ And Pekach the son of Remalyahu slew in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day, all being valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers.

¹⁰ Only through presumptuous conduct doth man produce contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.

²⁹ He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit holdeth up to view his folly.

¹ A soft answer turneth away fury; but a mortifying word stirreth up anger.

³² One that is slow to anger is better than a hero; and he that ruleth his spirit, than the conqueror of a city.

¹⁹ He loveth transgression that loveth quarrel; and he that maketh high his door seeketh destruction.

¹¹ It is intelligence in man to be slow in his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

³ It is an honor for a man to cease from a contest; but every fool enrageth himself.

⁸ Do not proceed to a contest hastily, lest thou know not what thou wilt have to do at its end, when thy neighbor hath put thee to confusion.

²¹ As charcoals are added to burning coals, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man fitted to enkindle a dispute.

²² A man of anger stirreth up strife; and a man of fury aboundeth in transgression.

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit. ⁹ Be not rash in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in bosom of fools.