21As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.
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A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
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.
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…
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