Proverbs 15:1 Cross References - MLV

¹ A soft answer turns away wrath, but a grievous word stirs up anger.

¹ And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you done thus to us, that you did not call us when you went to fight with Midian? And they chided with him sharply.
² And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you*? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? ³ God has delivered into your* hand the rulers of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb and what was I able to do in comparison with you*? Then their anger was abated toward him when he had said that.

³ And when I saw that you* did not save me, I put my life in my hand and passed opposite the sons of Ammon and Jehovah delivered them into my hand. Why then have you* come up to me this day, to fight against me?
⁴ Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead killed* Ephraim, because they said, You* are fugitives of Ephraim, you* Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.
⁵ And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said, No, ⁶ then they said to him, Say now Shibboleth and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right, then they laid hold on him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty-two thousand.

¹⁰ And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants now-a-days who break away every man from his master. ¹¹ Shall I then take my bread and my water and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men of whom I do not know from where they are? ¹² So David's young men turned on their way and went back and came and told him according to all these words.
¹³ And David said to his men, Gird you* on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword and David also girded on his sword. And there went up after David about four hundred men and two hundred abode by the baggage.

²¹ Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him and he has returned me evil for good. ²² God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if I leave of all that pertains to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on the wall.
²³ And when Abigail saw David, she hastened and alighted from her donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed herself to the ground. ²⁴ And she fell at his feet and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity and I beseech you, let your handmaid speak in your ears and hear the words of your handmaid. ²⁵ I beseech you, do not let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and senselessness is with him. But I your handmaid saw not the young men of my lord whom you sent.
²⁶ Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has withheld you from blood guiltiness and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal. ²⁷ And now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
²⁸ I beseech you, forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah and evil will not be found in you all your days. ²⁹ And though men have risen up to pursue you and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God. And the souls of your enemies, them he will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
³⁰ And it will happen, when Jehovah will have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and will have appointed you prince over Israel, ³¹ that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when Jehovah will have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
³² And David said to Abigail, Praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, ³³ and your discretion is blessed and you are blessed, who have kept me this day from blood guiltiness and from avenging myself with my own hand.

⁴³ And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, We have ten parts in the king and we have also more right in David than you*. Why then did you* despise us, that our advice should not be had first in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

¹³ And the king answered the people roughly and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, ¹⁴ and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your* yoke heavy, but I will add to your* yoke. My father disciplined you* with whips, but I will chastise you* with scorpions.
¹⁵ So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a thing brought about by Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
¹⁶ And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your* tents, O Israel. Now see to your own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents.

¹² Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all transgressions.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

¹⁵ A ruler is persuaded by long-suffering and a soft tongue breaks the bone.

²⁵ He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in Jehovah will be made fat.

²² An angry man stirs up strife and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.