Proverbs 29:12

The Scriptures 1998

If a ruler listens to lying words, All his servants become wrong.

Cross References

Genesis 39:19

And it came to be, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me according to these words,” that his displeasure burned.

1 Kings 12:14

and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I add to your yoke; my father flogged you with whips, but I, I flog you with scourges!”

2 Kings 21:9

But they did not obey, and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil than the gentiles whom יהוה  had destroyed before the children of Yisra’ĕ

Proverbs 20:8

A sovereign who sits on the throne of judgment Is scattering all evil with his eyes.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings rain, And a secret tongue an enraged face.

Jeremiah 37:2

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land had listened to the words of יהוה  which He spoke by the prophet Yirmeyahu.

1 Samuel 18:22

And Sha’ul commanded his servants, “Speak to Dawiḏ