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2 Samuel 2:14
And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

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2 Samuel 2:15
So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

2 Samuel 2:16
And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.

2 Kings 14:8
Then Amaziah sent representatives to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us have a meeting face to face.

2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.

2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.

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Proverbs 17:14
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

Proverbs 25:8
Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

Proverbs 13:10
The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

Proverbs 18:6
A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

Proverbs 20:3
It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Luke 14:31
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

Luke 14:32
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

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Genesis 21:9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.

Judges 16:25
Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.

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Proverbs 10:23
It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

Proverbs 26:18
As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,

Proverbs 26:19
So is the man who gets the better of his neighbour by deceit, and says, Am I not doing so in sport?

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