Proverbs 19:12

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What does Proverbs 19:12 mean?

Proverbs 19:12 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 19:12

• Hosea 14:5

  I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

• Proverbs 20:2

  The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

• Luke 12:4-5

  And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

• Proverbs 16:14-15

  The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it. In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

• Proverbs 28:15

  As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

• Esther 7:8

  Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

• Psalms 133:3

  As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

• Ecclesiastes 8:4

  Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

• Daniel 2:12-13

  For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon. And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.

• Daniel 3:19-23

  Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego. …

• Daniel 6:24

  And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

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Context

• Proverbs 19:11

  The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

• Proverbs 19:12

  The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

• Proverbs 19:13

  A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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