2 Samuel 2:27

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then the people would have gone away in the morning, each from following his brother.”

2 Samuel 2:14

Then Abner said to Joab, “Now let the young men arise and hold a contest before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

“Now therefore, my lord, as the Lord lives, and as your soul lives, since the Lord has restrained you from shedding blood, and from avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,

Proverbs 15:1

A gentle answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.

Proverbs 20:18

Prepare plans by consultation,
And make war by wise guidance.

Proverbs 25:8

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;
Otherwise, what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor humiliates you?

Isaiah 47:7

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

Luke 14:31-32

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

2 Samuel 2:27

And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

As god

1 Samuel 25:26

Job 27:2

Unless

Luke 14:31

General references

Judges 9:38

Galatians 5:15

Bible References

As god

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,

Unless

Then Abner said to Joab, “Now let the young men arise and

hold a contest before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”

A gentle answer turns away wrath,
But a

harsh word stirs up anger.

The beginning of strife is like letting out water,
So abandon the quarrel before it breaks out.

Prepare plans by consultation,
And make war by wise guidance.

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;

Otherwise, what will you do in the end,

When your neighbor humiliates you?

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

General references

Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your boasting now with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them!”

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.