You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My se
A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He w
The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in you
He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of th
Now consider carefully what you must do, because disaster looms over our master and all his household. For he is such a
Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful.
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.