Quotes about Conflict
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- Genesis 31:19
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- Genesis 31:26
Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
- Genesis 31:36
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
- Genesis 31:43
Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.
- Genesis 32:11
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
- Genesis 32:25
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
- Genesis 34:2
But because Shechem had defiled their sister Dinah, Jacob’s sons answered him and his father Hamor deceitfully.
- Genesis 34:13
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went away.
- Genesis 34:26
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.”
- Genesis 34:30
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.
- Genesis 37:4
“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.
- Genesis 37:8