Proverbs 14:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ The glory of a king is a multitude of people; without people a prince is ruined.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king's honour: But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ In a multitude of people is the king's glory, but in a lack of people is the prince's ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king’s glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Common English Bible

²⁸ A king’s glory is a large population, but a dwindling people is a ruler’s ruin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ In a multitude of people, there is dignity for the king. And in a paucity of people, there is disgrace for the prince.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of people the dishonour of the prince.

Proverbs 14:28 Krydshenvisninger

2 Samuel 19:7

So go out at once and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by the Lord, if you do not go, not a man will stay with you this night, and this will be worse for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your youth until now.”

2 Samuel 24:3

But Joab said to the king, “May the Lord your God increase the number of the people a hundredfold while the eyes of my lord the king can still see it! But why does my lord the king want to do this?”

1 Kings 20:27

After the Israelites had been mustered and provisioned, they went out to engage them; the people of Israel encamped opposite them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the country.

2 Kings 13:7

So Jehoahaz was left with an army of not more than fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

Exodus 1:22

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Jeremiah 13:20

Lift up your eyes and see those who come from the north. Where is the flock that was given you, your beautiful flock?