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1 Corinthians 1 10-1 Corinthians 1 13
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.Now I mean this, that each one of you says,“ I follow Paul,”“ I follow Apollos,”“ I follow Cephas,” and,“ I follow Christ.”Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized into the name of Paul?
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Ephesians 4:3-6
being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,one Lord, one faith, one baptism,one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.
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Zechariah 11:14
Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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2 Samuel 20 6
David said to Abishai,“ Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”
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Judges 12:1-6
The men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they said to Jephthah,“ Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didn’t call us to go with you? We will burn your house around you with fire!”Jephthah said to them,“ I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, you didn’t save me out of their hand.When I saw that you didn’t save me, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me today, to fight against me?”Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said,“ You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the middle of Ephraim, and in the middle of Manasseh.”The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said,“ Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him,“ Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said,“ No;”then they said to him,“ Now say‘ Shibboleth;’” and he said“ Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty- two thousand of Ephraim fell.
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John 17:21
that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
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1 Kings 12 16-1 Kings 12 20
When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying,“ What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam hurried to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.So Israel rebelled against David’s house to this day.When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed David’s house, except for the tribe of Judah only.
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2 Samuel 20 1
There happened to be there a wicked fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite; and he blew the trumpet, and said,“ We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!”
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Judges 9:23-57
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid on Abimelech their brother who killed them, and on the men of Shechem who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.Gaal the son of Ebed said,“ Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Isn’t he the son of Jerubbaal? Isn’t Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem, but why should we serve him?I wish that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech.” He said to Abimelech,“ Increase your army and come out!”When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burned.He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying,“ Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers have come to Shechem; and behold, they incite the city against you.Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul,“ Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” Zebul said to him,“ You see the shadows of the mountains as if they were men.”Gaal spoke again and said,“ Behold, people are coming down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.”Then Zebul said to him,“ Now where is your mouth, that you said,‘ Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Isn’t this the people that you have despised? Please go out now and fight with them.”Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many fell wounded, even to the entrance of the gate.Abimelech lived at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brothers, that they should not dwell in Shechem.On the next day, the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.He took the people and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field; and he looked, and behold, the people came out of the city. So, he rose up against them and struck them.Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city and killed the people in it. He beat down the city and sowed it with salt.When all the men of the tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered into the stronghold of the house of Elberith.Abimelech was told that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him,“ What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done!”All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez, and took it.But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head, and broke his skull.Then he called hastily to the young man, his armor bearer, and said to him,“ Draw your sword and kill me, that men not say of me,‘ A woman killed him.’ His young man thrust him through, and he died.”When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father in killing his seventy brothers;and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.
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Isaiah 19:2-3
I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
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Ezekiel 37:22
I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. One king will be king to them all. They will no longer be two nations. They won’t be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
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Isaiah 9:20-21
One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
