Proverbs 28:15

New King James Version

Like a roaring lion and a charging bear Is a wicked ruler over poor people.

Cross References

2 Kings 15:16

Then from Tirzah, Menahem attacked Tiphsah, all who were there, and its territory. Because they did not surrender, therefore he attacked it. All the women there who were with child he ripped open.

2 Kings 2:24

So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

2 Kings 21:16

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

Exodus 1:13

So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor.

Exodus 1:22

So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Proverbs 17:12

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, 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 wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion; Whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.

Isaiah 14:5

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

Isaiah 14:6

He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them like a bear deprived of her cubs; I will tear open their rib cage, And there I will devour them like a lion. The wild beast shall tear them.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, Because he willingly walked by human precept.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes in her midst are roaring lions; Her judges are evening wolves That leave not a bone till morning.

Matthew 2:16

Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.