It is the LORD who has kept you from taking revenge and killing your enemies. And now I swear to you by the living LORD that your enemies and all who want to harm you will be punished like Nabal.

(SEE 27:1)

Abner said to Joab, "Let's have some of the young men from each side fight an armed contest." "All right," Joab answered.

A gentle answer quiets anger, but a harsh one stirs it up.

The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.

Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan.

Don't be too quick to go to court about something you have seen. If another witness later proves you wrong, what will you do then?

You thought you would always be a queen, and did not take these things to heart or think how it all would end.

If a king goes out with ten thousand men to fight another king who comes against him with twenty thousand men, he will sit down first and decide if he is strong enough to face that other king.

If he isn't, he will send messengers to meet the other king to ask for terms of peace while he is still a long way off.