Judges 12:1

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Summary

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

Wherefore

John 10:32

We will burn

James 4:1

General references

Proverbs 26:4

Mark 3:24

Bible References

Wherefore

And the men of Ephraim said unto him, "Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledest us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites?" And they chode with him a good.

Wherefore all the men of Israel came to the king and said unto him, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household and all David's men with him over Jordan?"

For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.

Again, I saw that all travail and diligence of labour was hated of every man. This is also a vain thing, and a vexation of mind.

Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I showed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me?"

We will burn

And when the seventh day was come, they said unto Samson's wife, "Flatter with thine husband, that he may declare us thy riddle, or else we will burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to make us beggars? Or not?"

Then the Philistines asked who had done that. And it was told them that Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to one of his companions. And the Philistines came and burnt her and her father with fire.

The stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

For where envying and strife is, there is unstableness, and all manner of evil works:

From whence cometh war, and fighting among you? Come they not here hence, even of your voluptuousness that raineth in your members?

General references

Give not the fool an answer after his foolishness, lest thou become like unto him;

For if a realm be divided against itself, that realm cannot endure.