Quotes about Conflict

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

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?

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.

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.