(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 8:6
Moreover, the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and of the Arabians that were near the Ethiopians, and they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives, so that there was not a son left him save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
(Old Covenants) 2 Chronicles 19:9
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth has the Lord God of Heaven given me. ... The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying, Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord God of Heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. ... His God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel — he is the God which is in Jerusalem.
Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
None is so fierce that dare stir him up.
Stir up yourself and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. ... Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Yea, many a time he turned his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath; for he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and comes not again.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your strength, and come and save us.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:152
A soft answer turns away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 2:169
A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he that puts his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.
(Old Covenants) Proverbs 4:119
An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.
Therefore, thus says the Lord God of Hosts: O my people that dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian (he shall smite you with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against you, after the manner of Egypt), for yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease, and my anger, in their destruction. ... And the Lord of Hosts shall stir up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up; they shall every man turn to his own people and flee everyone into his own land. ... Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver and gold, they shall not delight in it.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased. ... Yea, the fir trees rejoice at you, and also the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller has come up against us. ... It stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops, you that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar does inhabit. ... The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. ... I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs, and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have consumed us because of our iniquities. ... Our holy and our beautiful house where our fathers praised you is burned up with fire, and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be far richer than they all; and by his strength through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece. ... And a mighty king shall stand up that shall rule with great dominion and do according to his will. ... And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides those.
But his sons shall be stirred up and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through. ... Then shall he return and be stirred up, even to his fortress. ... And when he has taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up, and he shall cast down many ten thousands, but he shall not be strengthened by it; for the king of the north shall return and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after certain years with a great army and with much riches.
And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army, and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand, for they shall devise plans against him.
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people.
And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him and caught him, and brought him to the council, and set up false witnesses who said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law, for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.