Quotes about Conflict

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.

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.