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Proverbs 18:19

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

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ASV

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; And such contentions are like the bars of a castle.

KJV

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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7 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אָ֗ח'Acha brotherH251 →
נִפְשָׁ֥עnif.Sha'transgressedH6586 →
מִקִּרְיַת־mi.kir.yat-[is] more than a town ofH7151 →
עֹ֑ז'OzstrengthH5797 →
וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗יםu.me.do.nimand contentionsH4079 →
כִּבְרִ֥יחַkiv.Ri.ach[are] like [the] bar ofH1280 →
אַרְמֽוֹן׃'ar.Mona fortressH759 →

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Proverbs 16:32He who is slow to anger is better than a warrior, and he who controls his temper is greater than one who captures a city.Acts 15:39Their disagreement was so sharp that they parted company. Barnabas took Mark and sailed for Cyprus,Proverbs 6:19a false witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up discord among brothers.1 Samuel 17:28Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”Genesis 37:3–5Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.1 Kings 12:16When all Israel saw that the king had refused to listen to them, they answered the king: “What portion do we have in David, and what inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, O David!” So the Israelites went home,Genesis 27:41–45Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”Genesis 4:5–8but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.2 Samuel 13:28Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”1 Kings 2:23–25Then King Solomon swore by the LORD: “May God punish me, and ever so severely, if Adonijah has not made this request at the expense of his life.2 Samuel 13:22And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for disgracing his sister Tamar.Genesis 37:18–27Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.Genesis 32:6–11When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”Genesis 32:11Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.2 Chronicles 13:17Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.Acts 7:26The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’2 Samuel 19:43“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.Judges 20:48And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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