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Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4
If the ruler’s anger rises against you, don’t leave your place, for calmness puts great offenses to rest.
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Proverbs 16:14
A king’s fury is a messenger of death, but a wise man appeases it.
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1 Samuel 25 24-1 Samuel 25 44
She fell at his feet and said,“ The guilt is mine, my lord, but please let your servant speak to you directly. Listen to the words of your servant.My lord should pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name is Nabal, and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.Now my lord, as surely as the Lord lives and as you yourself live, it is the Lord who kept you from participating in bloodshed and avenging yourself by your own hand. May your enemies and those who want trouble for my lord be like Nabal.Accept this gift your servant has brought to my lord, and let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the Lord is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the Lord’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.“ When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place where the Lord your God protects the living. However, He will fling away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.When the Lord does for my lord all the good He promised and appoints you ruler over Israel,there will not be remorse or a troubled conscience for my lord because of needless bloodshed or my lord’s revenge. And when the Lord does good things for my lord, may you remember me your servant.”Then David said to Abigail,“ Praise to the Lord God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today!Your discernment is blessed, and you are blessed. Today you kept me from participating in bloodshed and avenging myself by my own hand.Otherwise, as surely as the Lord God of Israel lives, who prevented me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, Nabal wouldn’t have had any men left by morning light.”Then David accepted what she had brought him and said,“ Go home in peace. See, I have heard what you said and have granted your request.”Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.In the morning when Nabal sobered up, his wife told him about these events. Then he had a seizure and became paralyzed.About 10 days later, the Lord struck Nabal dead.When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said,“ Praise the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained His servant from doing evil. The Lord brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.” Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her,“ David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”She stood up, then bowed her face to the ground and said,“ Here I am, your servant, to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers. And so she became his wife.David also married Ahinoam of Jezreel, and the two of them became his wives.But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
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1 Samuel 25 14
One of Nabal’s young men informed Abigail, Nabal’s wife:“ Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he yelled at them.
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Genesis 32:4-21
He commanded them,“ You are to say to my lord Esau,‘ This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, male and female slaves. I have sent this message to inform my lord, in order to seek your favor.’”When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said,“ We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you— and he has 400 men with him.”Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; he divided the people with him into two camps, along with the flocks, cattle, and camels.He thought,“ If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”Then Jacob said,“ God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me,‘ Go back to your land and to your family, and I will cause you to prosper,’I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.You have said,‘ I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows, 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys, and 10 male donkeys.He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them,“ Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”And he told the first one:“ When my brother Esau meets you and asks,‘ Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’then tell him,‘ They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’”He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals,“ Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.You are also to say,‘ Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought,“ I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”So the gift was sent on ahead of him while he remained in the camp that night.
