Proverbs 26:21 Cross References - WEB

²¹ As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

¹ There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”

² When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt, ³ and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

²⁰ When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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

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

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

³³ For as the churning of milk produces butter, and the wringing of the nose produces blood; so the forcing of wrath produces strife.”