²¹ As coals are to hot embers, And wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindling strife.

¹⁸ A wrathful man stirs up contention, But one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

²² An angry man stirs up strife, And a wrathful man abounds in sin.

¹ There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, Israel.

² It happened, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,

³ and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

²⁰ It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

⁴ Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.

¹² Hatred stirs up strife, But love covers all wrongs.

³³ For as the churning of milk brings forth butter, And the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; So the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."