THEOSISProverbs 18:19Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.
אָ֗ח נִפְשָׁ֥ע מִקִּרְיַת־עֹ֑ז ומדונים וּ֝מִדְיָנִ֗ים כִּבְרִ֥יחַ אַרְמֽוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 16:32The patient man is better than the valiant: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh cities.
- Prov 6:19A deceitful witness that uttereth lies, and him that soweth discord among brethren.
- Gen 37:18And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:
- Gen 37:27It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words.
- Acts 15:39And there arose a dissension so that they departed one from another. And Barnabas indeed, taking Mark, sailed to Cyprus.
- Gen 37:3Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.
- Gen 37:5Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more.
- 2 Sam 13:28And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.