Proverbs 20:26

Bible in Basic English 1965

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

Cross References

2 Samuel 12:31

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

Proverbs 20:8

A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.

Ruth 3:2

And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.