Proverbs 26:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Proverbs 26:21 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 15:18
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
2 Samuel 20:1
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Topics

Accusation, False Anger Busybody Contention Speaking Strife Talebearer Tattler

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-22)

Contention is as a fire; it heats the spirit, burns up all that is good, and puts families and societies into a flame. Now here we are told how that fire is commonly kindled and kept burning, that we may avoid the occasions of strife and so prevent the mischievous consequences of it. If then we would keep the peace, 1. We must not give ear to talebearers, for they feed the fire of contention with…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

20-21. The talebearers foster (Pr 16:28), and the contentious excite, strife.