Not Quickly Broken

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
- Proverbs 13:20

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
- Ecclesiastes 4:13

In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained in Jerusalem. One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her.
- 2 Samuel 11:1-3

Among the Thirty were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo from Bethlehem,
- 2 Samuel 23:24

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite and Uriah the Hittite.
- 2 Samuel 23:38-29

In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In it he wrote, “Put Uriah out in front where the fighting is fiercest. Then withdraw from him so he will be struck down and die.”
- 2 Samuel 11:4

See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
- Hebrews 3:12-13