19A 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. …
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19)Note, 1. Great care must be taken to prevent quarrels among relations, and those that are under special obligation to each other, not only because they are most unnatural and unbecoming, but because between such things are commonly taken most unkindly, and resentments are apt to be carried too far. Wisdom and grace would indeed make it most easy to us to forgive our relations and friends if they o…
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