Quotes about Conflict

“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.

“Far be it!” Joab declared. “Far be it from me to swallow up or destroy!

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must never again go out with us to battle, so that the lamp of Israel may not be extinguished.”

Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.

and when he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of David’s brother Shimei killed him.

He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.

Then the woman whose son was alive spoke to the king because she yearned with compassion for her son. “Please, my lord,” she said, “give her the living baby. Do not kill him!” But the other woman said, “He will be neither mine nor yours. Cut him in two!”

Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.

So to this day Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David.