Proverbs 28:15

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menachem struck Tifsach, and all who were therein, and the borders of it, from Tirtzah: because they didn't open to him, therefore he struck it; and all the women therein who were with child he ripped up.

2 Kings 2:24

He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Menasheh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Yehudah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Yisra'el serve,

Exodus 1:22

Par`oh charged all his people, saying, *You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.*

Proverbs 17:12

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

Proverbs 19:12

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

Proverbs 20:2

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Isaiah 14:5

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

Isaiah 14:6

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

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

Hosea 5:11

Efrayim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Beit-Lechem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.