A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
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Gill's Exposition
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city,.... A fortified city may sooner be taken by an enemy, than one brother offended can be reconciled to another; their resentments against each…
Barnes' Notes
The meaning of the first clause is obtained in the King James Version by the insertion of the words in italics, and it seems on the whole to be the best. The Septuagint and Vulgate give an entirely…
Matthew Henry
Note, 1. Great care must be taken to prevent quarrels among relations, and those that are under special obligation to each other, not only because they are most unnatural and unbecoming, but because…
Cambridge Bible
offended or injured, R.V. marg.
like the bars of a castle forming an impassable barrier to reconciliation.
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