Proverbs 28:15

American Standard Version 2015

{\i As} a roaring lion, and a ranging bear,\par\tab {\i So is} a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Cross References

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion:\par\tab He that provoketh him to anger sinneth {\i against} his own life.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion;\par\tab But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

2 Kings 21:16

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

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh charged 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 will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.\par

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after {\i man's} command.

Proverbs 17:12

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man,\par\tab Rather than a fool in his folly.

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that 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 Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two lads of them.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice;\par\tab But when a wicked man beareth rule, the people sigh.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

Isaiah 14:5

Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;

Isaiah 14:6

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

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing till the morrow.