Proverbs 28:15

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What does Proverbs 28:15 mean?

Proverbs 28:15 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Proverbs 28:15

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

• Exodus 1:22

  And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

• Proverbs 19:12

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

• 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.

• 2 Kings 21:16

  Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

• Exodus 1:14-16

  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour. And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

• 1 Samuel 22:17-19

  And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord. And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

• Hosea 13:8

  I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

• Proverbs 17:12

  Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

• 2 Kings 15:16

  Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

• Hosea 5:11

  Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

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Context

• Proverbs 28:14

  Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

• Proverbs 28:15

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

• Proverbs 28:16

  The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

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