Proverbs 28:15

Modern English Version

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Then Menahem struck Tiphsah and all who were in it, and the territories around Tirzah. Because they did not open up the city to him, he attacked it. Then he split open all its pregnant women.

2 Kings 2:24

He turned around, saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and ripped open forty-two of the boys.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other; besides his sin he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians made the Israelites to serve with rigor,

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, “You must cast every son that is born into the river, and you must preserve every daughter’s life.”

Proverbs 17:12

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 19:12

The wrath of a king 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 are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers;

Isaiah 14:6

he who struck the people in wrath with unceasing strokes, he who ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and no one hinders.

Hosea 13:8

I will attack them like a bear bereaved of her cubs, and will tear open their rib cage. There I will devour them like a lion, as the wild beast would tear them to pieces.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he eagerly followed after vanity.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was utterly furious and sent forth and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and the surrounding region, from two years old and under, based on the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober and watchful, because your adversary the devil walks around as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.