Proverbs 19:12

A king's anger is fearsome, but his favor is refreshing. Those under authority should weigh the power it holds.

Cross-references · 15

• Hos 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
• Prov 16:14–15The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
• Luke 12:4–5“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
• Prov 20:2The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
• Prov 28:15As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
• Dan 2:12–13For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
• Eccl 8:4for the king’s word is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
• Esth 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
• Dan 3:19–23Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
• Ps 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
• Dan 6:24The king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions mauled them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
• Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Ps 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
• 2 Sam 23:4shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
• Dan 5:19and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.

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