Proverbs 20:2

A Conservative Version

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger sins [against] his own life.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favor is as dew upon the grass.

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee, leave not thy place, for deference allays great offences.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

1 Kings 2:23

Then king Solomon swore by LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Hosea 11:10

They shall walk after LORD, who will roar like a lion. For he will roar, and the sons shall come trembling from the west.

Habakkuk 2:10

Thou have devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against thy soul.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared, who will not fear? Lord LORD has spoken, who can but prophesy?

Numbers 16:38

even the censers of these sinners against their own lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before LORD, therefore they are holy, and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore as LORD lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.