Proverbs 28:15

A Conservative Version

A roaring lion, and a ranging bear, [is] a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Cross References

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was scorned by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and having sent forth, he killed all the boys in Bethlehem, and in all the borders of it, from two years old and under, according to the time that

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant. Your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom to devour.

Proverbs 20:2

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

Proverbs 19:12

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

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh ordered all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart. And there I will devour them like a lioness. The wild beast shall tear them.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed. He is crushed in judgment, because he was content to walk after [man's] command.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders of it, from Tirzah, because they did not open to him, therefore he smote it. And all the women in it who were with child he ripped up.

2 Kings 2:24

And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of LORD. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two lads of them.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice, but when a wicked man bears rule, the people sigh.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor.

Isaiah 14:5

LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

Isaiah 14:6

who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.