Then all the guests of Adonijah got up trembling and went their own ways.
Proverbs 28:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: But the righteous are bold as a lion. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE WICKED flee when no man pursues them, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous are bold as a lion. [Lev. 26:17, 36; Ps. 53:5.] American Standard Version (1901) The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion. Common English Bible The wicked run away even though no one pursues them, but the righteous are as confident as a lion. Catholic Public Domain Version The impious flees, though no one pursues. But the just, like a confident lion, shall be without dread. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread. |
Then all the guests of Adonijah got up trembling and went their own ways.
So they went after them as far as the Jordan; the whole way was littered with garments and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. So the messengers returned and told the king.
But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Would a man like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!”
Terrifying sounds are in their ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon them.
They are not afraid of evil tidings; their hearts are firm, secure in the Lord.
There they shall be in great terror, in terror such as has not been. For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.
Then all these officials of yours shall come down to me and bow low to me, saying, ‘Leave us, you and all the people who follow you.’ After that I will leave.” And in hot anger he left Pharaoh.
Whoever walks in integrity walks securely, but whoever follows perverse ways will be found out.
there will be enough goats’ milk for your food, for the food of your household and nourishment for your female servants.
A thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you shall flee until you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
When the house of David heard that Aram had allied itself with Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
For thus says the Lord: I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon and shall kill them with the sword.
I will set my face against you, and you shall be struck down by your enemies; your foes shall rule over you, and you shall flee though no one pursues you.
And as for those of you who survive, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall though no one pursues.
So they remained for a long time speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace by granting signs and wonders to be done through them.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and realized that they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed and recognized them as companions of Jesus.
“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out against them one way and flee before them seven ways. You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition.