Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, “Please don't let's have arguments between us, or between our herdsmen, because we're family.
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Genesis 11:27The following is the genealogy of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran was the father of Lot.
Genesis 45:24Then he saw his brothers off, and as they left he told them, “Don't argue on the way!”
Judges 9:26Gaal, son of Ebed, had moved to Shechem with his relatives, and he gained the loyalty of the leaders of Shechem.
Proverbs 15:1A kind reply wards off anger, but hurtful words make people mad.
Proverbs 20:3Avoiding conflict is the proper thing to do, but stupid people are quick to argue.
Acts 7:26The next day when he arrived, two Israelites were fighting one another. He tried to reconcile them and stop the fight. ‘Men! You are brothers!’ he told them. ‘Why are you attacking each other?’
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:6-10
Lot's Separation from Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my… Read the whole commentary →