'Contended' in the Bible
And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?
And the people contended with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when our brethren died before Jehovah!
These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel contended with Jehovah, and he hallowed himself in them.
and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, summoned of the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the band of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah.
Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
And I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this which ye do, profaning the sabbath day?
And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
If I have despised the cause of my bondman or of my bondmaid, when they contended with me,
I have laid a snare for thee, and thou, Babylon, art also taken, and thou wast not aware; thou art found, and also caught, for thou hast contended with Jehovah.
The Jews therefore contended among themselves, saying, How can he give us this flesh to eat?
and when Peter went up to Jerusalem, they of the circumcision contended with him,
And there was a great clamour, and the scribes of the Pharisees' part rising up contended, saying, We find nothing evil in this man; and if a spirit has spoken to him, or an angel ...
yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life.