As charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
A man of wrath stirs up strife, and one given to anger causes much transgression.
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
A warrior's sharp arrows, with glowing coals of the broom tree!
And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but the tribe of Judah only.
And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt. And they sent and called him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came and said to Rehoboam,
Now there happened to be there a worthless man, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. And he blew the trumpet and said, “We have no portion in David, and we have no inheritance in the son of Jesse; every man to his tents, O Israel!”
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