Quotes About Conflict

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaacís herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,

Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.

So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”

Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”

So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his fatherís presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.

But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.

But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”

So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Havenít you saved a blessing for me?”

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”

You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.

Stay with him for a while, until your brotherís fury subsides—

When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasnít it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”

Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.