2 Samuel 2:14
And Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men arise and play before us." And Joab answered, "Be it."
2 Samuel 2:17
And there began an exceeding cruel battle that same day. But Abner and the men of Israel were put to the worse of the servants of David.
2 Samuel 2:26-27
Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour without end? Knowest thou not that bitterness is wont to come in the latter end? How long shall it be, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?"
Proverbs 10:23
A fool doth wickedly and maketh but a sport of it; nevertheless it is wisdom for a man to beware of such.
Proverbs 17:14
He that soweth discord and strife, is like one that diggeth up a water brook; but an open enemy is like the water that breaketh out and runneth abroad.
Proverbs 20:18
Through counsel the things that men devise go forward; and with discretion ought wars to be taken in hand.
Proverbs 25:8
Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.
Proverbs 26:18-19
Like as one shooteth deadly arrows and darts out of a privy place, even so doth a dissembler with his neighbour.