Proverbs 14:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁸ A large population is a king’s splendour, but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king's honour: But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ In a multitude of people is the king's glory, but in a lack of people is the prince's ruin.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the king’s glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

Common English Bible

²⁸ A king’s glory is a large population, but a dwindling people is a ruler’s ruin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ In a multitude of people, there is dignity for the king. And in a paucity of people, there is disgrace for the prince.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ In the multitude of people is the dignity of the king: and in the small number of people the dishonour of the prince.

Proverbs 14:28 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 19:7

‘Now get up! Go out and encourage  your soldiers, for I swear by the Lord that if you don’t go out, not a man will remain with you tonight.  This will be worse for you than all the trouble that has come to you from your youth until now! ’

2 Samuel 24:3

Joab replied to the king, ‘May the Lord your God multiply the troops a hundred times more than they are   #– #while my lord the king looks on! But why does my lord the king want to do this? ’

1 Kings 20:27

The Israelites mobilised, gathered supplies, and went to fight them. The Israelites camped in front of them like two little flocks of goats, while the Arameans filled the landscape.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz did not have an army left, except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them,  making them like dust at threshing.

Exodus 1:12

But the more they oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread so that the Egyptians came to dread  the Israelites.

Exodus 1:22

Pharaoh then commanded all his people, ‘You must throw every son born to the Hebrews into the Nile, but let every daughter live.’

Proverbs 14:27

The fear of the  Lord is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 14:29

A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.

Jeremiah 13:20

Look up and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock entrusted to you, the sheep that were your pride?