Quotes about Conflict

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.

Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

“Why did you bring this trouble upon me?” Israel asked. “Why did you tell the man you had another brother?”

Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

Gad will be attacked by raiders, but he will attack their heels.

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.

The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

And all these officials of yours will come and bow before me, saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” And hot with anger, Moses left Pharaoh’s presence.