Proverbs 20:2

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

Cross References

Proverbs 19:12

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

Ecclesiastes 10:4

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

1 Kings 2:23

Then King Solomon swore by YHWH, saying, “May God do to me and even more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

Hosea 11:10

They will walk after YHWH, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

Habakkuk 2:10

You have devised shame to your house by cutting off many peoples, and have sinned against your soul.

Amos 3:8

The lion has roared. Who will not fear? Lord YHWH has spoken. Who can but prophesy?

Numbers 16:38

As for the censers of those who sinned against their own lives, y’all are beat them into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before YHWH. Therefore they are holy. They will be a sign to the children of Israel.”

1 Kings 2:24

Now therefore as YHWH lives, who has established me and set me on my father David’s throne, and who has made me a house as he promised, surely Adonijah will be put to death today.”