Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.
Proverbs 28:1 - Revised Standard Version The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: But the righteous are bold as a lion. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition THE WICKED flee when no man pursues them, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous are bold as a lion. [Lev. 26:17, 36; Ps. 53:5.] American Standard Version (1901) The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion. Common English Bible The wicked run away even though no one pursues them, but the righteous are as confident as a lion. Catholic Public Domain Version The impious flees, though no one pursues. But the just, like a confident lion, shall be without dread. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The wicked man fleeth, when no man pursueth: but the just, bold as a lion, shall be without dread. |
Then all the guests of Adonijah trembled, and rose, and each went his own way.
So they went after them as far as the Jordan; and lo, all the way was littered with garments and equipment which the Syrians had thrown away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
But I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”
Terrifying sounds are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
He is not afraid of evil tidings; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been! For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly; they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.
O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.
And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get you out, and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and maintenance for your maidens.
A thousand shall flee at the threat of one, at the threat of five you shall flee, till you are left like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain, like a signal on a hill.
When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with Ephraim,” his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They shall fall by the sword of their enemies while you look on. And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon; he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
I will set my face against you, and you shall be smitten before your enemies; those who hate you shall rule over you, and you shall flee when none pursues you.
And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.
So they remained for a long time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who bore witness to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
but though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in the face of great opposition.