Proverbs 28:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.

2 Kings 2:24

And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.

2 Kings 21:16

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Exodus 1:13

And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:

Exodus 1:22

And Pharaoh gave orders to all his people, saying, Every son who comes to birth is to be put into the river, but every daughter may go on living.

Proverbs 17:12

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

Proverbs 20:2

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.

Proverbs 29:2

When the upright have power, the people are glad; when an evil man is ruler, grief comes on the people.

Isaiah 14:5

The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

Isaiah 14:6

He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.

Hosea 13:8

I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;