Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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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Bible References
Brother
Proverbs 6:19
a false witness that bringeth up lies, and such one as soweth discord among brethren.
Genesis 4:5
but unto Cain and unto his offering, looked he not. And Cain was wroth exceedingly, and lowered.
Genesis 27:41
And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing that his father blessed him withal, and said in his heart, "The days of my father's sorrow are at hand, for I will slay my brother Jacob."
Genesis 32:6
And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."
Genesis 37:3
And Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he begat him in his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
2 Samuel 13:22
And Absalom said unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad. Howbeit, Absalom hated Amnon because he had forced his sister Tamar.
1 Kings 2:23
Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, "God do so to me and so thereto if Adonijah have not spoken this word against himself.
1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king regarded them not, the people answered the king again saying, "We have no part in David, nor inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents therefore Israel, and now see to thine own house David." And so Israel departed unto their tents.
2 Chronicles 13:17
And Abijah and his people slew a great slaughter of them: so that there were stricken down dead of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
Acts 15:39
And so sharp was the dissension between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: so that Barnabas took Mark and sailed unto Cyprus.
Than
Proverbs 16:32
A patient man is better than one strong; and he that can rule himself, is more worth than he that winneth a city.